EPPO Global Database

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical race 4(FUSAC4)

Hosts

Important note about the classification of host plants in GD:
Categories have been assigned by the EPPO Secretariat on the basis of available data at the time of entry. They correspond to a qualitative evaluation of the importance of the host plant for the pest concerned and remain indicative only.
Further explanation of categories is available in the guide.
Organism Type
Musa acuminata (MUBAC) Major host
* Ploetz RC (2006) Panama disease: an old nemesis rears its ugly: head part 2. The cavendish era and beyond. Plant Health Progress. 7(1), 36.
Chloris barbata (CHRBA) Wild/Weed
* Hennessy C, Walduck G, Daly A and Padovan A (2005) Weed hosts of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropicalrace 4 in northern Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology 34, 115–117. 
------- as Chloris inflata. Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.cubense tropical race 4 was isolated from roots of this plant growing in an infested banana plantation.
Cyanthillium cinereum (VENCI) Wild/Weed
* Hennessy C, Walduck G, Daly A and Padovan A (2005) Weed hosts of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropicalrace 4 in northern Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology 34, 115–117. 
------- as Cyanthilium cinereum. Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.cubense tropical race 4 was isolated from roots of this plant growing in an infested banana plantation.
Euphorbia heterophylla (EPHHL) Wild/Weed
* Hennessy C, Walduck G, Daly A and Padovan A (2005) Weed hosts of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropicalrace 4 in northern Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology 34, 115–117. 
------- Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.cubense tropical race 4 was isolated from roots of this plant growing in an infested banana plantation.
Tridax procumbens (TRQPR) Wild/Weed
* Hennessy C, Walduck G, Daly A and Padovan A (2005) Weed hosts of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropicalrace 4 in northern Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology 34, 115–117. 
------- Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.cubense tropical race 4 was isolated from roots of this plant growing in an infested banana plantation.
Musa (1MUBG) Host
* Ploetz RC (2006) Panama disease: an old nemesis rears its ugly: head part 2. The cavendish era and beyond. Plant Health Progress. 7(1), 36.
Eleusine indica (ELEIN) Experimental
* Catambacan DG, Cumagun CJR (2022) The weed Eleusine indica as an alternative host of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 causing Fusarium wilt in Cavendish banana. Journal of Phytopathology. 170 (7-8), 437-444.
------- in inoculation studies.