Special Issue Towards the Integrated Management of Fusarium Wilt of Banana (2021)

Tropical Race 4 (TR4) Fusarium banana wilt is currently ranked as the greatest threat to the banana sector worldwide. The recent outbreak in Colombia brought the disease to pandemic level. Integrated approaches are essential for both subsistence smallholder farming environments and more commercially oriented production systems. Limiting the spread of TR4 requires more effective mobilisation and collaboration between global, regional, national and local agencies and platforms to strengthen plant quarantine, containment and mitigation efforts.