{"id":87264,"date":"2020-05-30T23:47:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15714"},"modified":"2020-05-30T23:47:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:17:01","slug":"now-banana-covid-hits-plantations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/now-banana-covid-hits-plantations\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, \u2018Banana Covid\u2019 hits plantations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Fusarium Wilt TR4 dubbed as Banana Covid is setting up new hotspots and threatening the output of Banana Cultivation&nbsp; in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Tropical Race 4(TR4)<\/strong>: It is a novel fungus strain that causes Fusarium wilt (aka Panama disease) in banana plants.<\/li><li><strong>Origin: <\/strong>It was first identified in Taiwan and has jumped from Asia to the Middle East and Africa reaching as far as Latin America.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Threat: <\/strong>It cripples plantations by first attacking the leaves which turn yellow from their trailing edges before wilting away.<\/li><li><strong>Treatment: <\/strong>There is no effective remedy yet.Hence, scientists recommend biosecurity measures including plant quarantine to slow its spread.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Fusarium Wilt TR4 dubbed as Banana Covid is setting up new hotspots and threatening the output of Banana Cultivation&nbsp; in India. Facts: Tropical Race 4(TR4): It is a novel fungus strain that causes Fusarium wilt (aka Panama disease) in banana plants. Origin: It was first identified in Taiwan and has jumped from Asia to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/now-banana-covid-hits-plantations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now, \u2018Banana Covid\u2019 hits plantations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182,2122],"tags":[5012,5013],"class_list":["post-87264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-miscellaneous","tag-banana-cultivation","tag-tropical-race-4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700500947},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}