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Finetuning banana Xanthomonas wilt control options over the past decade in East and Central Africa

dc.contributor.authorBlomme, Guy
dc.contributor.authorJacobsen, K.
dc.contributor.authorOcimati, W.
dc.contributor.authorBeed, Fen D.
dc.contributor.authorNtamwira, J.
dc.contributor.authorSivirihauma, C.
dc.contributor.authorSsekiwoko, F.
dc.contributor.authorNakato, V.
dc.contributor.authorKubiriba, J.
dc.contributor.authorTripathi, L.
dc.contributor.authorTinzaara, W.
dc.contributor.authorMbolela, F.
dc.contributor.authorLutete, L.
dc.contributor.authorKaramura, E.B.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T10:58:25Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T10:58:25Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationBlomme, G., Jacobsen, K., Ocimati, W., Beed, F., Ntamwira, J., Sivirihauma, C., ... & Tinzaara, W. (2014). Fine-tuning banana Xanthomonas wilt control options over the past decade in East and Central Africa. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 139(2), 271-287.
dc.identifier.issn0929-1873
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/985
dc.descriptionPublished online: 7 March 2014
dc.description.abstractXanthomonas wilt, caused by Xanthomonascampestris pv. musacearum has, since 2001, becomethe most important and widespread disease of Musa inEast and Central Africa. Over the past decade, newresearch findings and especially feedback from smallscalefarmers have helped in fine-tuning Xanthomonaswilt control options. During the initial years of theXanthomonas wilt epidemic in East Africa, the completeuprooting of diseased mats and the burning orburying of plant debris was advocated as part of acontrol package which included the use of clean gardentools and early removal of male buds to prevent insectvector transmission. Uprooting a complete mat (i.e. themother plant and a varying number of lateral shoots) isunderstandably time-consuming and labour intensiveand becomes very cumbersome when a large numberof diseased mats have to be removed. Recent researchfindings suggest that Xcm bacteria do not colonize alllateral shoots (i.e. incomplete systemicity occurs) andeven when present that this does not necessarily lead tosymptom expression and disease. This led to a newcontrol method whereby only the visibly diseased plants that the continued removal of only the diseased plants ina field will reduce the inoculum level and will bringdown disease incidence to an acceptable level. Thismethod is less labour intensive and takes a short timecompared to the removal of a complete mat. However,single diseased stem removal needs to go hand in handwith prevention of new infections that can occur throughthe use of contaminated garden tools or through insectvector transmission. Novel transgenic approaches arealso discussed. This paper presents an overview of pastand ongoing research towards the development of amore practical and less demanding control strategy forXanthomonas wilt.
dc.format.extent271-287
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectBananas
dc.subjectFood Security
dc.subjectXanthomonas
dc.titleFinetuning banana Xanthomonas wilt control options over the past decade in East and Central Africa
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.affiliationBioversity International
cg.contributor.affiliationRoyal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Agricultural Research Organisation, Uganda
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Agricultural Research Organisation, Uganda
cg.contributor.affiliationConsortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa
cg.contributor.affiliationFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
cg.coverage.regionAfrica South Of Sahara
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectBanana
cg.journalEuropean Journal of Plant Pathology
cg.howpublishedFormally Published
cg.accessibilitystatusLimited Access
local.dspaceid77914
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10658-014-0402-0


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