Sentences with phrase «foc strains»

For his part, Dale is trying to engineer Gros Michel bananas for resistance to the original Foc strain.

Not exact matches

A strain of Foc previously wiped out the Gros Michel cultivar, which was the main exported banana variety from the nineteenth century until the 1950s.

But Cavendish is susceptible to the new Foc Tropical Race 4 (Foc - TR4) strain, and could meet the same fate as Gros Michel if the fungus reaches Latin America, the world's leading banana exporter, says Rony Swennen of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, and a banana breeder at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Dar es Salaam.