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First Report of Postharvest Fruit Rot Caused by Fusarium sacchari on Lady Finger Banana in Italy
2020-08-01
Abstract excerpt
Thin-skinned banana ‘Lady Finger’, a diploid hybrid (AA) of Musa acuminata, is grown for its edible fruits and as an ornamental. In April 2019, in an open-air market in Catania (southern Italy), 42% of fruits in a stock of 2,000 pounds of this banana cultivar showed numerous small, dark circular spots and dark brown to black, sunken lesions, lenticular in shape, along with crown, finger-stalk, and tip-end rot. The...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8cbe50a2-105a-5b51-a4a6-7e24b59643ad
- DOI
- 10.1094/pdis-01-20-0143-pdn
