ABC Rural announced that Australia's gene technology regulator approved a field trial of genetically modified Grande Naine bananas (a Cavendish cultivar). They were modified to be resistant to the TR4 strain of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense, the causal agent of Fusarium wilt, better known as Panama disease. Four of the lines that were part of a trial that was interrupted when the plants were removed under the Banana Freckle Eradication program will be screened along with new lines.
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