Hi: If you want to identify the Fusarium spp on Lab level you should to grow tissue on PDA 25C for 3-5 day, you should see the spores under microscope.
For the field identify, wilt symptoms start from the old leaf with yellowish color.
You take samples (root, stem, and corm) from banana that shows wilt symptom as yellowing the old leaf, then 1) cut the samples small piece 1-2 cm, 2) washing and sterilize, 3) put on PDA media, 4) checking after 3 days, 5) do microscope slide and check the conidia and phialides (Must be monphialide of F. oxysporum)
Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense which caused wilting on banana distinguished by the following features :
1 - Colonies on PDA white , pale salmon or pale mauve or violet , often with salmon or orange sporodochia ; reverse pale salmon and mauve in the center, violet or greyesh.
2 - Macroconidia slightly curved with 3 septa with foot - shaped basal cells .
3 - Microconidia abundant , fusiform to kidney shaped , produced in false heads from short stout monophialides.
for Field evaluations, the symptoms on cutting longitudinal or horizontal of stem bases and incidental, variegated or dark brown color with or without scent enough to distinguish symptoms of fungal, bacterial and viruses . symptoms on the leaves and vegetative growth, distance between internodes in plants such as chickpeas and cotton.. other crops, and we usually used a degree for resistant or tolerance to differentiate between cultivars, also the patches distribution in the fields. but in banana I did not test them in the field .
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