date:Aug 13, 2012
The containment of a devastating banana-plant disease and the development of disease-tolerant plants have become the Australian banana industrys top priorities after the Northern Territory Government advised its previous quarantine restrictions were not working.
The banana industrys peak body, the Australian Banana Growers Council (ABGC), said the industry must now take action to stop the spread of the soil-borne fungal disease Panama Tropical Race 4 (TR4) from the Northern Territory to banana