BACTERIAL WILT (MOKO DISEASE)
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Banana

SOURCE:
I. Buddenhagen, M. Schroth
DISEASE:
Bacterial wilt (Moko disease)
HOST:
Banana
(Musa sp. 'Bluggoe')
Fruit stalk infected with small fluidal round (SFR) strain of Ralstonia solanacearum. Infection of terminal bud occurs at sites where dead male flowers dehisced.
PATHOGEN:
Ralstonia solanacearum
PATHOGEN SYNONYM:
Pseudomonas solanacearum