Banana Disease Brain Teaser

Name of domesticated banana today
Cavendish
Banana that became extinct in 1965
Gros Michel
How Cavendish is made
Cloning
Banana disease
Fusarium wilt
Banana genus
Musa
Number of countries that grow bananas
150
Where bananas first cultivated
New Guinea
Where fusarium wilt invades banana plant
Vascular tissue through the roots
Latest version of fusarium wilt
Tropical race 4 (TR4)
When fusarium wilt tropical race 4 first emerged
Early 1990s
Reason bananas at risk for extinction
Low genetic variability
Where fusarium wilt tropical race 4 first reported
Middle East
General type of microbe that causes banana disease
Fungus
Another name for banana disease
Panama disease
End Of Game
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