List of banana and plantain diseases

This article is a list of diseases of bananas and plantains (Musa spp.).

Dickeya dadantii) Colletotrichum musae Armillaria mellea Armillaria tabescens Phyllachora musicola Mycosphaerella fijiensis Ceratocystis paradoxa Chalara paradoxa [anamorph] Verticillium theobromae Trachysphaera fructigena Cordana johnstonii Cordana musae Fusarium pallidoroseum Colletotrichum musae Verticillium theobromae Fusarium spp.

Nattrassia mangiferae = Hendersonula toruloidea Guignardia musae Phyllosticta musarum [anamorph] Fusarium solani Nectria haematococca [teleomorph] Fusarium oxysporum Rhizoctonia spp.

Uredo musae Uromyces musae Marasmiellus inoderma Marasmius semiustus Races 1, 2 and 4 - inc.Tropical Race 4 (TR4) and Subtropical Race 4 Lasiodiplodia theobromae Fusarium pallidoroseum Fusarium oxysporum Verticillium theobromae Fusarium moniliforme Gibberella fujikuroi [teleomorph] Mycosphaerella eumusae [sexual stage] Septoria eumusae [anamorph] A new species even more aggressive than Black Sigatoka and spreading in Asia and the Indian Ocean.

Nectria foliicola Mycosphaerella musicola Pseudocercospora musae [anamorph] Ramichloridium musae = Veronaea musae = Periconiella musae Abaca bract mosaic virus Abaca bunchy top virus Abaca mosaic virus Radopholus similis Meloidogyne arenaria Meloidogyne incognita Meloidogyne javanica Pratylenchus coffeae Pratylenchus goodeyi Pratylenchus brachyurus Pratylenchus reniformia Helicotylenchus multicinctus Helicotylenchus dihystera One of the less common plantain diseases is exostentialis clittellus referred to by most plantain and banana farmers as "segmented banana".