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DURING recent years, there has been a considerable extension of the cultivation of the Gros Michel banana in the British Cameroons. Vascular wilt disease (Fusarium oxysporum cubense) and Cercospora leaf-spot disease (Cercospora musœ Zimm), which are both present there, are already well known to the planting community. Here I wish to direct attention to a virus disease which I observed during a recent visit. This disease, which has been described as 'infectious chlorosis' or 'heart rot' by Magee1 and Morwood2, has been recorded in New South Wales by these observers3 and in Guadeloupe and Haiti by myself4,5.
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Morwood, R. B., Ann. Rept. Queensland Dept. Agric., 1930–31, 47 (1931).
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WARDLAW, C. Infectious Chlorosis of Bananas in the Cameroons. Nature 162, 894 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162894a0
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