Fungal disease spreads in attack on bananas

A virulent fungal disease that attacks bananas “is now on a global conquest,” says Quartz. “Since 2013, the lethal fungus has jumped continents, ravaging crops in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.” It’s only a matter of time before Panama disease, as the fungus is known, reaches Latin America, the world’s major banana-growing… » Read More

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