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Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense

Fungus, causes banana wilt/Panama disease

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
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Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense is a fungal plant pathogen that causes Panama disease of banana, also known as Fusarium wilt. The fungi and the related disease are responsible for widespread pressure on banana growing regions, destroying the economic viability of several commercially important banana varieties.

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“Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense” enters the record as fungus, causes banana wilt/Panama disease. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fusarium, oxysporum and cubense can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.