10th Banana Asia Pacific Network Steering Committee

The BAPNET STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
(Front Row, left to right) Chih Ping Chao (Taiwan Banana Research Institute), Yi Ganjun (China), Krishna Nallur Kumar (Bioversity, India), Agustin Molina (Bioversity, Philippines), Robert Williams (Australia), Reynaldo Ebora (Philippines)
(Back row, left to right) Logotonu Waqainabete (Secretariat Pacific Community), Tran Ngoc Hung (Vietnam), Sombat Tongtao (Thailand), Birte Nass- Komolong (Papua New Guinea), Mossammat Shamsunnahar (Bangladesh), Thangavelu Raman (India), Agus Sutanto (Indonesia), Pauziah Muda (Malaysia), Joell Lales (Philippines)
Public Private Partnerships of Bioversity

Bioversity International works with small Cavendish growers as well as big companies in addressing a the dreaded disease – Fusarium Wilt TR4, affecting not only banana farmers in the Philippines and Asia but the world over. Resistant banana varieties are being studied for their use to alleviate the problem. (In photo: Researchers of DOLE-STANFILCO, Lapanday Food Corporation and DA-Bureau of Plant Industry in the middle of a 9ha farm planted with GCTCV 219 at Calinan, Davao City)
ITC Musa Germplasm Field Evaluation for Fusarium Wilt TR4 in the Philippines

The site for the ITC Musa Germplasm Field Evaluation for Fusarium Wilt TR4 in Davao City, Philippines
This disease evaluation research will give us more information on what specific Musa varieties in the ITC Musa Germplasm collection are resistant or susceptible to Foc TR4 in the field. This would help us identify local and commercial varieties that are potentially threatened by the disease.

At the entrance, a cavendish variety with Fusarium wilt disease welcomes you!
The golden banana hands of Fusarium Resistant Banana Varieties (GCTCV 219 and GCTCV 218)

The golden banana hands of Fusarium Resistant Banana Varieties (GCTCV 219 and GCTCV 218)
During the 9th BAPNET STeering Committee Meeting in Davao City, Philippines, participants visited the plantation of the Lapanday Food Corporation (LFC) in farming Town, Sto. Tomas, Davao del Norte planted with the locally selected Fusarium wilt resistant GCTCV somaclones (GCTCV 218) from the Taiwan Banana Research Institute (TBRI). In set (from left to right) Dr. Emily Fabregar (Research Manager, LFC), Dr. Gus Molina (BAPNET Coordinator), Dr. Pat Faylon (Director, PCAARRD) and Dr. Chih Ping Chao (Director, TBRI)

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The use of resistant varieties in an integrated management of epidemics of Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race 4 in the Philippines

Gus Molina, Emily Fabregar, Noel Perpetua, Benny Corcolon, Lorna Herradura, Susan Razo and Vida Grace Sinohin A.MOLINA@cgiar.org Dr. Agustin Molina, Senior Scientist and Regional Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific of Bioversity International, presenting a keynote paper entitled, “The use of resistant varieties in an integrated management of epidemics of Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race 4 […]

Research and production experiences in Asia suggest that Panama disease (Foc TR4) will not destroy the Cavendish banana industry

Dr. Agustin B. Molina Bioversity International/Banana Asia Pacific Network Western media is fixated with reporting that Panama Disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc TR4) will lead to the disappearance of Cavendish bananas from supermarkets. This is in reaction to certain researchers predicting the unavoidable incursion of the fungus into Latin American banana […]

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