Authors would like to thank the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and CGIAR Research Program on Root, Tuber and Banana (CRP-RTB) for financial support, Academia Sinica, Taiwan for providing gene constructs for BXW resistance and African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) for negotiating license of Pflp and Hrap genes from Academia Sinica and for sublicensing the genes to IITA and our colleagues at IITA and NARO for their contributions.

Leena Tripathihttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5723-4981

Dr Jaindra Nath Tripathi, Ph.D.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6366-917X

Biotech and Plant Breeding

Agronomy; Banana; Food Security; Plant Breeding; Plant Diseases; Plant Production

Bananas; Xanthomonas; Plant Diseases; East Africa

Africa; East Africa

Burundi; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Kenya; Rwanda; Tanzania; Uganda

Eastern Africa Hub

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