List price   € 97   Buy this book   This title is available in ActaHort USB-drive or e-Acta format - not available in print Conveners   A. Viljoen, N. van den Berg, I. Van den Bergh  Editors   D. Jones, I. Van den Bergh  Publication date   1 May 2009  ISBN   978-90-66054-88-2  ISSN   0567-7572 (print)   2406-6168 (electronic)  Number of articles   44  Volumes   1  Place   White River, South Africa  Online articles: DISEASE AND PEST CONSTRAINTS TO BANANA PRODUCTION (D.R. Jones) VIRAL PATHOGENS OF BANANA: OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS AND OPTIONS FOR CONTROL (A.D.W. Geering) THE EFFECT OF THE PROMPT REMOVAL OF INFLORESCENCE-INFECTED PLANTS AND EARLY DEBUDDING OF INFLORESCENCES ON THE CONTROL OF XANTHOMONAS WILT OF BANANA (G. Blomme, L.F. Turyagyenda, H. Mukasa, F. Ssekiwoko, S. Mpiira, S. Eden-Green) BLOOD BACTERIAL WILT OF BANANA: HISTORY, FIELD BIOLOGY AND SOLUTION (I. Buddenhagen) RHIZOBACTERIA-MEDIATED GROWTH PROMOTION OF BANANA LEADS TO PROTECTION AGAINST BANANA BUNCHY TOP VIRUS UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS (M. Kavino, S. Harish, N. Kumar, R. Samiyappan) HOW TO CONTROL AND PREVENT THE SPREAD OF BANANA STREAK DISEASE WHEN THE ORIGIN COULD BE VIRAL SEQUENCES INTEGRATED IN THE BANANA GENOME? (M.L. Iskra-Caruana, P. Gayral, S. Galzi, N. Laboureau) THE DISTRIBUTION OF BADNAVIRUS-INFECTED MUSA GERMPLASM FROM THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT CENTRE, KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, BELGIUM (A.D.W. Geering) AMF-INDUCED BIOPROTECTION AGAINST MIGRATORY PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODES IN BANANA (A. Elsen, L. Van der Veken, D. De Waele) THE BURROWING NEMATODE OF BANANA: STRATEGIES FOR CONTROLLING THE UNCONTROLLABLE (A. zum Felde, A. Mendoza, J.A. Cabrera, A. Kurtz, A. Schouten, L. Pocasangre, R.A. Sikora) RECENT OCCURRENCE OF FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. CUBENSE TROPICAL RACE 4 IN ASIA (A.B. Molina, E. Fabregar, V.G. Sinohin, G. Yi, A. Viljoen) RECENT AND UP-COMING STRATEGIES TO COUNTER PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODES IN BANANA CROPPING SYSTEMS OF THE FRENCH WEST INDIES (J.M. Risède, C. Chabrier, M. Dorel, B. Rhino, K. Lakhia, C. Jenny, P. Quénéhervé) BEAUVERIA BASSIANA AS AN ENDOPHYTE IN TISSUE-CULTURED BANANA PLANTS: A NOVEL WAY TO COMBAT THE BANANA WEEVIL COSMOPOLITES SORDIDUS (J. Akello, T. Dubois, D. Coyne, C. Hillnhutter) FIELD EVALUATION OF NON-PATHOGENIC FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM ISOLATES UPM31P1 AND UPM39B3 FOR THE CONTROL OF FUSARIUM WILT IN 'PISANG BERANGAN' (MUSA, AAA) (A.S.Y. Ting, M. Sariah, J. Kadir, S. Gurmit) SEQUENCING THE MAJOR MYCOSPHAERELLA PATHOGENS OF WHEAT AND BANANA (G.H.J. Kema) A DOSE-RESPONSE APPROACH DIFFERENTIATING VIRULENCE OF MYCOSPHAERELLA FIJIENSIS STRAINS ON BANANA LEAVES USES EITHER SPORES OR MYCELIA AS INOCULA (B.G.G. Donzelli, A.C.L. Churchill) IS CHEMICAL CONTROL OF MYCOSPHAERELLA FOLIAR DISEASES OF BANANA SUSTAINABLE? (L. de Lapeyre de Bellaire, J. Essoh Ngando, C. Abadie, C. Chabrier, R. Blanco, T. Lescot, J. Carlier, F. Côte) NEW APPROACHES TO SELECT CULTIVARS OF BANANA WITH DURABLE RESISTANCE TO MYCOSPHAERELLA LEAF SPOT DISEASES (C. Abadie, Y. Chilin-Charles, J. Huat, F. Salmon, L. Pignolet, J. Carlier, T. Lescot, F. Côte, C. Jenny) PATHOGEN DIVERSITY: CONTRIBUTIONS TO APPLIED AND BASIC BANANA RESEARCH (R.C. Ploetz) UNDERSTANDING STRAIN DIVERSITY IN FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. CUBENSE AND HISTORY OF INTRODUCTION OF 'TROPICAL RACE 4' TO BETTER MANAGE BANANA PRODUCTION (I. Buddenhagen) DETECTION, INCIDENCE AND DIVERSITY OF BANANA STREAK VIRUSES, BANANA MILD MOSAIC VIRUS AND BANANA VIRUS X IN GUADELOUPE (F. Péréfarres, G. Le Provost, I. Acina, B.E.L. Lockhart, A. Allah Dghim, M.L. Iskra-Caruana, T. Candresse, P.Y. Teycheney) DEVELOPMENT OF SIMPLE MOLECULAR PROTOCOLS TO DETECT BANANA BUNCHY TOP VIRUS WITH THE PHYTOPASS SYSTEM (J.P. Busogoro, O. Dutrecq, H. Jijakli) MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. MUSACEARUM, THE CAUSAL AGENT OF XANTHOMONAS WILT OF BANANA AND ENSET (V. Aritua, N. Parkinson, R. Thwaites, D.R. Jones, W. Tushemereirwe, J.J. Smith) PRE-EMPTING PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODE LOSSES ON BANANA IN AFRICA: WHICH SPECIES DO WE TARGET? (D. Coyne) MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS IN THE MYCOSPHAERELLA LEAF SPOT DISEASE COMPLEX OF BANANA AND FOR RADOPHOLUS SIMILIS (M. Arzanlou, G.H.J. Kema, C. Waalwijk, J. Carlier, I. de Vries, M. Guzmán, M. Araya Vargas, J. Helder, P.W. Crous) ASSESSING THREATS POSED BY DESTRUCTIVE BANANA PATHOGENS (R.C. Ploetz) UNDERSTANDING PLANT RESPONSES TO BIOTIC STRESS: ONGOING RESEARCH IN MUSA (R.N.G. Miller, D.J. Bertioli, F.C. Baurens, B.F. Quirino, A.Y. Ciampi, C.M.R. Santos, N.F. Martins, M.T. Souza Jr., G.J. Pappas Jr.) GENES UP-REGULATED IN TOLERANT CAVENDISH BANANA ROOTS IN RESPONSE TO FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. CUBENSE INFECTION (N. van den Berg, D.K. Berger, I. Hein, P.R.J. Birch, M.J. Wingfield, A. Viljoen) HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN BANANA ROOTS CAUSED BY PRATYLENCHUS COFFEAE, MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA AND RADOPHOLUS SIMILIS, AND IDENTIFICATION OF RAPD MARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH P. COFFEAE RESISTANCE (A. Nithya Devi, V. Ponnuswami, P. Sundararaju, I. Van den Bergh, M. Kavino) EXPLORING THE BANANA STREAK VIRUSES - MUSA SP. PATHOSYSTEM: HOW DOES IT WORK? (P. Gayral, F. Lheureux, J.C. Noa-Carrazana, M. Lescot, P. Piffanelli, F. Carreel, C. Jenny, M.L. Iskra-Caruana) BIOPRIMING BANANA WITH PLANT GROWTH-PROMOTING ENDOPHYTIC BACTERIA INDUCES SYSTEMIC RESISTANCE AGAINST BANANA BUNCHY TOP VIRUS (S. Harish, M. Kavino, N. Kumar, R. Samiyappan) THE ROLE OF CROP IMPROVEMENT IN PEST AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT (J. Lorenzen, A. Tenkouano, R. Bandyopadhyay, I. Vroh-Bi) INDUCTION AND SELECTION OF POTENTIALLY USEFUL MUTANTS IN BANANA (N.S. Roux, A. Toloza, H. Strosse, J.P. Busogoro, J. Doležel) BREEDING BANANA FOR COMBINED RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM WILT AND NEMATODES IN TAMIL NADU, INDIA (N. Kumar, T. Damodaran, V. Krishnamoorthy) DEVELOPMENT OF A GENETIC LINKAGE MAP FOR GENES ASSOCIATED WITH RESISTANCE AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. CUBENSE FROM AN F1 HYBRID POPULATION OF MUSA ACUMINATA SSP. MALACCENSIS (F. Kayat, N. Bonar, R. Waugh, S. Rajinder, A.R. Rahimah, K.A. Rashid, R.Y. Othman) SCREENING OF THE DATAMUSA DATABASE FOR ORTHOLOGS OF GENES KNOWN TO BE RELATED TO BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESSES TO IDENTIFY AND CHARACTERISE CANDIDATE GENES (C.M. Romero Santos, N.F. Martins, M.M. Melo de Araújo, F.R. da Silva, R.C. Togawa, M.T. Souza Jr.) RESISTANCE OF F1 SEGREGATING POPULATIONS DERIVED FROM CROSSES BETWEEN WILD BANANA ACCESSIONS MUSA ACUMINATA SPP. BURMANNICOIDES 'CALCUTTA 4' AND M. BALBISIANA 'MONTPELLIER' TO BLACK LEAF STREAK DISEASE (I. Vroh-Bi, M. Zandjanakou-Tachin, W. M'bah, A. Tenkouano, P. Ojiambo, R. Bandyopadhyay) INCREASING THE PRO-POOR IMPACT OF BANANA CROP PROTECTION STRATEGIES: KNOWING OUR CLIENTS, INVOLVING NEW PLAYERS AND LINKING MORE EFFECTIVELY (C. Staver) INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT APPROACHES DEVELOPED IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES TO REDUCE PESTICIDE USE IN BANANA PRODUCTION SYSTEMS (F.X. Côte, C. Abadie, R. Achard, P. Cattan, C. Chabrier, M. Dorel, L. de Lapeyre de Bellaire, J.M. Risède, F. Salmon, P. Tixier) MANAGING BANANA BUNCHY TOP VIRUS IN SMALLHOLDINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES (A.B. Molina, V.G.O. Sinohin, F.M. dela Cueva, A.V. Esguerra, S.S. Crucido, E. Vida, B.E. Temanel, E.A. Anit, J.E. Eusebio) IMPROVING CROP PROTECTION ON BANANA FARMS IN GHANA (B.M. Dzomeku, F. Armo-Annor, K. Adjei-Gyan, J. Ansah, A. Nkakwa) KEY FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE XANTHOMONAS WILT EPIDEMIC ON BANANA IN EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA (M. Mwangi , V. Nakato) PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO CONTROL XANTHOMONAS WILT OF BANANA IN EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA (E. Karamura, F. Turyagyenda, W. Tinzaara, J. Muhangi, G. Blomme, F. Maina-Mwangi) GLOBAL BANANA DISEASE MANAGEMENT – GETTING SERIOUS WITH SUSTAINABILITY AND FOOD SECURITY (J.W. Daniells) MANAGING DISEASES AND PESTS OF BANANA: THE WAY AHEAD? (R. Markham)