Technical Manual Prevention and diagnostic of Fusarium Wilt (Panama disease) of banana caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (TR4) (2014)

The technical manual discusses the importance of banana cultivation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the economic impact of F. oxysporum (R4T) and its history, symptoms and signs, taxonomy and morphology of the causal agent, race variability, geographical distribution, risk management and disease management, as well as protocols for sampling infected plants and soil, and laboratory methodologies to identify Foc (R4T) by PCr and complementary information.