Manejo integrado del mal de Panamá [Fusarium oxysporum Schlechtend.: Fr. sp. cubense (E.F. SM.) W.C. Snyder & H.N. Hansen]: una revisión

Banana is a very important fruit worldwide and in Colombia it is the third export product. One of the diseases limiting the crop is the Panama disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense. The disease is considered devastating because of the losses it caused in Gros Michel, forcing the replacement of this cultivar by Cavendish, which is being threatened by the tropical race 4 of the fungus, which although not yet found in the country, represents a global threat. The management of the disease has been based on the exclusion of the pathogen, avoiding entry into healthy areas and using resistant varieties, but the nature of the pathogen has shown that these measures are not enough and that other strategies need to be considered. The Integrated Management of Diseases, MIE, in its philosophy seeks to combine options in favor of the crop to guarantee besides the health, high yields and innocuousness. This review compiles information on the research results obtained through the use of different measures and feasible to be included in an integrated management program of the Panama disease, framing them within the logistic model proposed by Van der Plank and emphasizing the need to conduct more research to obtain resistant materials and carry out evaluations in the field that more effectively demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed practices.