Images
© Monique Hunziker, Biovision
Bananas (Musa sp.)
© Monique Hunziker, Biovision
The cigar end rot disease (Trachysphaera fructigena).
© INIBAP. International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (www.inibap.org)
Black leaf streak
© John Bridge/CABI BioScience. Reproduced from the Crop Protection Compendium, 2005 Edition. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 2005.
Toppled bananas due to root damage caused by Radopholus similis, the burrowing nematode.
© A. A. Seif, icipe
Burrowing nematodes on banana roots. Note brown lesions (patches) caused by the nematodes.
© A. A. Seif, icipe
Fusarium wilt symptoms (Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense) on banana leaves. Banana cultivar 'Bluggoe' with yellowing symptoms on lower leaves
© A. A. Seif, icipe
Pith discolouration of banana pseudostem caused by Fusarium wilt.
© A. A. Seif, icipe
Anthracnose fruit rot on Banana
© A. M. Varela, icipe
Thrips damage on banana fruits
© A. M. Varela, icipe.
Black leaf streak on banana leaf
© M. K. Billah, icipe
Fruit fly attack on green banana
© A.M. Varela, icipe
Banana weevil
© Denis Persley and Tony Cooke, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland, Australia (Courtesy of EcoPort, www.ecoport.org)
Banana bunchy top virus
© Pearson, M.N. Courtesy of EcoPort, www.ecoport.org
Banana bunchy top virus
© A.A. Seif
Banana bunch
© A.A. Seif
Ripe table bananas on sale in a rural market
© A.A. Seif
Cigar-end rot symptoms on banana fingers
© A.A. Seif
Banana plants planted in trenches
© A.A. Seif
Whiteflies egg laying on lower leaf surface of banana plant