Review On Impact of Banana Bacterial Wilt Xhantomonas Campestris PV Musacerum in East and Central Africa
Review On Impact of Banana Bacterial Wilt Xhantomonas Campestris PV Musacerum in East and Central Africa
Review On Impact of Banana Bacterial Wilt Xhantomonas Campestris PV Musacerum in East and Central Africa
To cite this article: Ambachew Zerfu Geberewold | (2019) Review on impact of banana bacterial
wilt (Xhantomonas�campestris�pv.�Musacerum) in East and Central Africa, Cogent Food &
Agriculture, 5:1, 1586075
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Keywords: Bacterial wilt; banana; Xanthomonas campestris pv. Musacearum; East and
central Africa
1. Introduction
Approximately a third of global banana production is grown in sub-Saharan Africa where the crop
provides more than 25% of food energy requirements for an estimated 70 million people (Price,
1995). The sub-region alone produces nearly 20 million tons of bananas annually. The crop is
important as a staple as well as a relatively cheap and easily produced source of minerals and
vitamins, particularly vitamin A, C and B6. Although a major staple in Africa, Asia and Latin
America, only 13% of bananas produced are internationally traded, indicating the fruit’s impor-
tance for domestic markets and food security. In East and Central Africa, it is a significant dietary
component, ranging from about 20% of daily total food intake in Uganda up to 80% in parts of
Rwanda (Lescot, 2013).
Furthermore, banana by-products (peels and pseudostems) provide valuable livestock fodder,
especially during the prolonged droughts that affect the regions periodically. The plant has also
been used for medicinal purposes (Karamura, 1992), for celebrating marriage and for other rituals.
Virtually all components of the plant have found a variety of uses in the homesteads and domestic
industries, including basket-making, carpets, shoes and a host of indoor decorations (Karamura, 1992).
Bananas also play an important environmental role within farming systems by combating soil
erosion on steep hills and preserving long-term fertility of the soil. The crop’s canopy also provides
protection for other crops that are often inter-cropped with it, such as beans, groundnuts, cucur-
bits and coffee. Once established as a sole crop, bananas enter a phase of continuous growth,
creating a “tropical forest” with beneficial microclimatic effects to the soil. Gardens as old as 150
years are common in Uganda (Tothill, 1940).
However, the banana crop is threatened by Xanthomonas wilt (BXW), caused by the bacterium
Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum (Xcm) in East and Central Africa (ECA). BXW was
formally only reported in Ethiopia on both banana (Musa spp.) and Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
(Dagnachew & Bradbury, 1968). Since its first report in the region in 2001, BXW is now recorded
from Uganda, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, western Kenya, northwest and western
Tanzania, the whole of Rwanda and Burundi, with yield losses of up to 80–100% in many sites .
Movement of infected banana material by farmers leads to rapid spread to previously uninfected
areas. Sudden outbreaks in old or isolated plantations suggest the bacterium is also air or insect-
borne (Ndungo, Bakelana, Eden-Green, & Blomme, 2004). Once these pathogens have become
established, disease control is very difficult. In east and central Africa, there are cases where the
disease has been eradicated using cultural control methods while the disease has reached endemic
proportions in other cases (Tinzaara, 2009). There are also areas where the disease has been brought
under control only for it to resurge some months later. The adoption of control technologies
(debudding, use of clean tools, uprooting diseased plants and use of clean planting material) by
farmers in ECA has generally been low, thus limiting the potential for sustainable control of the
disease. Inadequate knowledge and sensitization of stakeholders with respect to disease diagnosis,
spread and control has been identified as one of the major challenges.
Despite the developing strategies of disease management, the impact of BXW on banana produc-
tion in eastern and central Africa is not yet fully organized. Although the economic loss of BXW on the
welfare of the farmers and the economy of the countries is not well documented. In addition to this
paper discussed efforts aimed at generation of information on fine tuning cultural control options and
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development of resistant cultivars. With this, the objective of this paper is to review banana bacterial
wilt distribution, importance, and management techniques in east and central Africa.
2. Literature review
Bacterial diseases of banana and enset can be classified into three distinct groups: i) Ralstonia-
associated diseases (Moko/Bugtok disease caused by Ralstonia solanacearum and banana blood
disease caused by R. syzygii subsp. celebesensis); ii) Xanthomonas wilt of banana and enset,
caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum and iii) Erwinia-associated diseases (bacter-
ial head rot or tip-over disease (Erwinia carotovora ssp. carotovora and E. chrysanthemi), bacterial
rhizome and pseudostem wet rot (Dickeya paradisiaca formerly E. chrysanthemi pv. paradisiaca).
The disease was described as destroying banana fruit bunches and known to result in total loss
of production, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people who depend on banana as a food
and income source. Subsequently, the disease was identified as Xanthomonas campestris pathovar
musacearum. Previously known only from its attack on Ensete and banana in Ethiopia, in just four
years since its discovery in central Uganda, the disease developed into a full-blown epidemic,
spreading throughout the eastern, central and north-western districts of the country. Although the
disease was first observed in 2001, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it was only confirmed in
2004 (Ndungo et al., 2004; Ndungo, Eden-Green, Blomme, Crozier, & Smith, 2006).
In Tanzania Xanthomonas wilt was first identified in Muleba District Kagera region in January 2006;
subsequently, the disease has been reported in Bukoba, Karagwe, Biharamulo, in Kagera region and
Tarime District in Mara region. The other banana growing regions- Meru-Kilimanjaro axis, Kigoma
region, the southern highlands bordering Malawi and Mozambique and the islands of Pemba and
Zanzibar are free from the disease. In Kenya, Xanthomonas wilt was first discovered in 2006 in Teso,
Bungoma and Busia in Western province. In the year 2007, the disease has also been reported in
Kakamega district in Western province and Siaya in Nyanza province. The highland agroecologies of
Kisii, the rift valley and central Kenya remain disease free and so does the coastal regions.
2.3. Economic impact of banana bacterial wilt and implications for management strategies
Compared to pre-infection levels, the total banana yield loss due to BXW infection is estimated at
30–52% between 2001 and 2004 (Karamura et al., 2008). Although an economic analysis of BXW
has to be based on findings from Central Uganda, where the disease has occurred first and is
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presently most common, it is possible to forecast the economic impact of a BXW pandemic in
Uganda by extrapolating the observations made in this region. BXW has now been reported in 34
districts in Uganda, apparently spreading from Central Uganda, where banana production is less
intensive and mainly subsistence oriented to the high-production areas in Western Uganda.
However, whereas in Central Uganda infestation rates reach levels of 18–27%, the major banana
producing areas in the South-West of Uganda still show little or no infection (Tushemereirwe &
Opolot, 2005).
If uncontrolled BXW spreads at an infection rate of 8% per annum in cooking bananas, the
total production loss of bananas is expected to be about 56% over a ten-year period,
translating into a reduction from 4.5 million tons to eventually 2.1 million tons per year.
spread over the whole of Uganda would induce economic losses of 2 billion dollars over
a decade, arising from price increases and significant reductions in production. However,
producers would benefit either in the first few years of the pandemic, or during a whole
decade if the infestation rates are lower than 8% (Abele and Pillay, 2007).
Bananas are important in the Great Lakes region, not only in Uganda, but also in adjacent
countries, where they are both a food security and a cash crop (Figure 1). Food security studies
reveal that in Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, bananas constitute more than 30% of the daily
per capita caloric intake, rising to 60% in some regions. Bananas also provide a major source of
cash income for the farmers in the Great Lakes region (Okech et al., 2004). Between 2001 and
2007, BXW spread into more than 35 districts in Uganda, apparently from central Uganda,
where banana production is less intensive and mainly subsistence-oriented, to the highly
intensive production areas in western Uganda. In central Uganda, BXW incidence, measured
as the proportion of affected sites within a district, reached up to 60%, but the major banana
production areas in southwestern Uganda showed little or no infestation by 2006
(Tushemereirwe et al., 2006).
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In response to the outbreak of BXW, the Ministry of Agriculture, and Animal Industry and
Fisheries (MAAIF) in Uganda formed a task force in December 2001 to develop a strategy to
eradicate the disease (Tushemereirwe et al., 2006). The strategy emphasized cutting and burying
infected banana plants, restricting movement of banana materials, decapitating male buds,
sterilizing tools, and raising awareness about the disease. BXW management strategies reduced
disease incidence to less than 10% in areas where they were adopted, but implementation was not
sustainable due to the high costs.
2.4. Ranking of banana bacterial wilt versus other banana production constraints in East
and Central Africa
Farmers‟ ranking of banana production constraints in Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania show that
BXW disease was ranked first by most farmers (Figure 2). The importance of other banana
constraints greatly varied between countries. Banana weevils (Cosmopolites sordidus), nematodes
(including Radopholus similis, Helicotylenchus multicinctus and Pratylenchus goodeyi), Fusarium wilt
(Fusarium oxysporum cv cubence) and Black Sigatoka (Mycosphaerella fijiensis) followed in that
order for Tanzania. In Rwanda, the second banana production constraint was Fusarium wilt
followed by Black Sigatoka and Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) while in Burundi the second
constraint was Fusarium wilt, BBTV, banana weevils and nematodes. The high ranking of BXW is
probably due to the high yield losses the disease causes (up to 100% loss) if not controlled early
enough (Karamura et al., 2010). This implies that for any banana intervention or investment, the
control of BXW should be given first priority.
2.5. Effect of banana bacterial wilt on household food security and dietary intake
Household food security was heavily affected by the outbreak of BXW in these countries. Usually,
over 50% of the household diet comes from bananas in Kagera region. Likewise, banana con-
tributes substantially to household diets in Rwanda with 32% of the households having banana
contributing more than 50% to their diets. The outbreak of BXW affected about 34% and 44% of
the villages in Kagera in 2009 and 2011, respectively. About 70% of the interviewed farmers
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reported that there was a significant change in their dietary patterns due to the outbreak of BXW
disease (Yadav, Verma, & Tiwari, 2006)
3. Management methods
This includes investigating diversity among farmers, their production objectives and barriers for
adopting (BXW) technologies, effective strategies of information provision and capacity develop-
ment for farmers, information needs and communication preferences to better understand and
address constraints and challenges, and how multi-stakeholder processes can support joint pro-
blem identification, analysis and collective action. This diagnostics paper does not offer such an
investigation, yet it conveys the importance of each problem dimension by providing
a comprehensive assessment of their contribution to the persistence of BXW.
One of the major challenges is the identification of resistant germplasm and the develop-
ment of resistant cultivars through conventional breeding. Screening of both local and elite
banana germplasm for resistance is a major ongoing activity. Differential responses of the
cultivars to the pathogen have been observed in the field. The mechanisms leading to differ-
ential responses by the host plants need to be investigated. Germ-plasm screening trials and
field observations in Uganda have shown that some cultivars are able to escape the disease
because of their inflorescence morphology. Such an observation was also made by
Buddenhagen et al. (1987).
Very little is known about the life cycle of Xvm. A clear understanding of the pathogen’s life cycle
and its significance to the epidemic development in bananas is critical to the wilt research agenda.
Information on pathogen population structure, pathogen diversity and phylogeny is still lacking
and yet important in determining the best strategy for deployment of resistance. The duration of
survival of the bacteria in the soils is not well documented, and the relative importance of different
routes of infection remains a major challenge (Brandt, Spring, & Cliffton, 1997)
Even farmers in Uganda are reluctant to destroy “kayinja” and other ABB cultivars such as
“Bluggoe” (best performing cultivars) even if the plants are infected. It is difficult to persuade
farmers to destroy diseased mats since occasionally a diseased mat may still produce a normal
bunch. Many farmers also obtain cash income from selling “kayinja” leaves that are used in the
preparation of food. “Kayinja” produces numerous suckers, which are able to proliferate well in
large mats, needs very little attention and produces large laminas that are not shredded easily by
wind. Therefore, farmers tend to preserve stands of these plants even if they are infected with
banana bacterial wilt.
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Once BWE occurs in a field, there is no remedy other than to cut down all infected plants,
completely dig out the corm, and place the field under fallow or a prolonged crop rotation
regime (Tripathi et al., 2009). Some farmers fallow the enset field and practice rotation with
annual crops. In contrast, in the area that is relatively free of bacterial wilt, farmers practice
control measures such as uprooting the infected bacterial wilt enset plants and keeping them
away from the household, other enset plants, and cattle. Farmers also try to keep healthy
plants away from contaminated farm and processing tools (Brandt et al., 1997). A six months
fallow period is adequate to avoid re-infection from soil-borne inoculum if all infected plant
Table 1. Farmer awareness and application of BXW control measures in Uganda and Kenya
Practices Percentage of Percentage of Percentage of Percentage of
households households households households
aware currently aware currently
applying applying
Cut down affected pseudo 74 65 57 41
stem of affected plant
Cut down and dig up whole 59 41 45 39
mate of affected plant
Bury plant remains 49 32 6 2
Burn plant remains 23 8 4 –
Heap affected plant remains 35 29 10 6
and leave on ground
Left on ground but not heap 13 11 6 4
and buried
Remove the bud of affected 82 67 12 8
plant with fork stick
Remove male bud with 41 29 45 39
cutting stools
After cutting, clean tools (JIK/ 77 64 4 4
fire)
Treat with concoction 21 16 8 6
Do not sell or move any 18 14 4 –
fruits, leaves, suckers outside
the disease area
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materials are removed . However, some farmers also uproot and throw away infected plants on
the road or near the enset farm, which further spread the disease. Farmers in peasant
associations, where some training on sanitary measure was advocated do not practice the
measure correctly.
As described earlier, the pathogen can survive in the soil and plant debris, and hence
sanitation could be important control option. Sanitation has been recommended for enset
bacterial wilt by different authors (Ashagari, 1985; Brandt et al., 1997; Dagnachew &
Bradbury, 1974). This measure includes the use of disease-free suckers as planting material,
uprooting and burying of diseased plants far from the field, cleaning and flaming of equipment
that has come in contact with diseased plants and rotation of crops if the damage is severe
(Brandt et al., 1997). Such measures should be taken in a manner of campaign and as a regular
practice in all enset growing areas.
It is estimated that there are over 200 different enset clones described by vernacular names in
Ethiopia and more than 66 clones in the Gurage zone. Variable levels of clonal response to the
Xcm disease have been observed under farmers’ field conditions and while using artificial
inoculation. Enset farmers commonly grow combinations of clones in their enset field, and
each clone is basically grown for its specific use. One of the selection criteria of the clone is
resistance/tolerance to BWE disease. Ashagari (1985) identified five enset clones, namely Ado,
Kembate, Hedesso, Soskella, Genticha and Ade as tolerant clones from 60 test clones by artificial
inoculation. Similarly, Welde-Michael et al. (2008) identified some enset clones, which showed
a relative tolerance to Xcm. These are Anikefye, Eminiye, Lemat and Nechwe from Gurage zone
and Abate, Arkya, Heila, Mezya and Sorpie from Hadiya zone and some clones like Buacho,
Wonigoro, Bazeriet and Dere recovered from an initial infection from Xcm. Fikre and Welde-
Michael et al. (2008) also reported that Meziya enset clone is resistant/tolerant to bacterial wilt of
enset. However, they may found to be susceptible in other experiment, due to variation in
pathogen isolate or the clone type
Biological control depends upon the establishment and maintenance of a threshold population and
viability below that level may eliminate the possibility of biological control. P. putida B56, P. fluorescens
A506 and P. syringae Cit7 provided significant reductions in disease severity of bacterial spot of tomato
(Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria) under greenhouse conditions. Similarly, foliar application
Pseudomonas syringae consistently provided significant disease suppression in control of bacterial
spot of tomato caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria. In addition, seed and root applica-
tion of Pseudomonas fluorescens and Bacillus pumilus provided significant suppression of bacterial spot
in the field trials conducted in Alabama.
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Unintended effects would occur if this competitive displacement were to seriously affect
a nontarget organism; perhaps even leading to its extinction or in some other way detrimentally
affecting a component of the ecosystem. Furthermore, some fungi that intended for biological
control could infect a wide variety of hosts, which sometimes include mammals. Thus, evaluation
of potential microbial control agents must include an evaluation of their virulence towards non-
target organisms (Goettel, Hajek, Siegel, & Evans, 2001).
In-vitro test was also done on X. campestris pv. mangiferaeindicae and all the chemicals and
antibiotics used, aureofungin, bavistin, erythromycin, streptocycline, streptomycin and tetracycline
inhibited the bacterium. Test of some antibiotics for Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. punicae also
shows an inhibitory effect against the pathogen. Consequently, streptocycline + copper oxychloride
had showed highest inhibition (2.8 cm), followed by copper oxychloride (2.63 cm) and streptocy-
cline (2.59 cm), which are on par with each other.
Several studies have also indicated the potential of plant extracts in the control of diseases
caused by X. campestris in several important crop plants. About 208 diffusates from various plants
such as forest trees, shrubs, herbs, fruit seeds, etc., against X. campestris pv. citri. and diffusates
from various parts of Phyllanthus emblica, Acacia nilotica, Sapindus mukorossis and Terminalia
chebula exhibited an inhibition zone 4.83–6 mm at 50 g/liter appeared to be the most effective.
Extracts from Acacia arabica, Achras zapota, and from other six higher plants were also found
inhibitory to various pathovars of X. campestris. Chamomilla recutita and Chamaemelum nobile
extracts also inhibited the growth of X .campestris pv. citri strains causing citrus bacterial canker
disease .
A researchs also reported that in vitro evaluation of plant-extracts (such as Sapin-dus laurifolia,
Asclepias curassavica, Helicteres isora, Piper betel, Tamarindus indica, Tridax procumbens and
Azadirachta indica) inhibits bacterial growth of X. campestris pv. mangiferaeindicae causing bacter-
ial black spot of mango. However, the in vitro and in vivo effectiveness of these chemicals for Xcm
is not documented for both enset and banana.
Even though biological control of bacterial diseases using microbial antagonists are known to be
effective (Priou, Marquez, & Gutarra, 2006), this option has not yet been tried so far in the manage-
ment of bacterial wilt of enset (Handoro et al., 2012). But control of insect vectors may prove possible
once these have been identified, especially for banana. Plants sprayed with streptomycin sulphate,
Agrimycin—100, Vitavax, Dithane M-45 and Benlate each at 0.2% concentration and then inoculated
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with exhibited infection index values of 3.00, 2.33, 2.40, 1.90 and 1.83, respectively, as compared with
2.93 in case of control, 10 days after inoculation.
4. Future research
The Production of transgenic resistant cultivars is very advanced with some lines under field
evaluation in Uganda . Improved understanding of the molecular basis of interaction between
the bacterium and the host plant, and an analysis of the intermediate products produced by both
the pathogen and plant following infection has been attributed to this advancement in transgenic
breeding. Reactions of these transgenic banana cultivars to BXW under field conditions are
promising but what remains an issue is the acceptability of transgenic material by farmers as
a replacement to their indigenous cultivars. Exclusion of farmers in transgenic research due to its
stringent and bio-safety protocols is likely to hamper the adoption of transgenic bananas. Use of
transgenic approaches in the development of resistant banana cultivars is however relatively
faster than conventional breeding. Continuous donor support for the development of transgenic
cultivars is an important strategy (Tripathi et al., 2014).
According to Abayneh (2010) reported that using microbial agents against BXW has been eval-
uated in pot experiments and under greenhouse conditions four bacterial antagonistic (inhibit
growth of other microbes) isolates tested against Ensete Xanthomonas wilt pathogen demonstrated
a reduction in disease severity ranging from 56.4% to 74.8%. Bacterial antagonistic isolates showed
significant disease reduction relative to the positive control, indicating that Xanthomonas wilt could
be potentially managed with bacterial antagonists. Biological control of Xcm using antagonistic
bacteria has not been discussed in detail and remains an option for controlling the disease.
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number of samples. Furthermore, advanced PCR-based diagnostic methods with high specificity to
Xcm have been developed.
ELISA based Xcm-specific techniques that are suitable for handling large plant samples have
also been developed for laboratory assays. More recent polyclonal diagnostic studies conducted
through collaboration between Bioversity International, the National Agricultural Research
Organization (NARO, Uganda), IITA and the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA, UK)
successfully developed a lateral flow device (LFD) which is suitable for Xcm detection in banana.
These LFDs are currently being tested under field conditions, and the technology will enhance
diagnosis of BXW in material suspected to be infected as opposed to solely relying on visual
symptoms and ease BXW surveillance work.
Recent research findings also show that the incubation period for the bacterium is between 2
weeks and 16 months (Ocimati et al., 2013). During this period, infection can be spread from the
asymptomatic plant to healthy plants contaminated tools. Such activity is responsible for perpe-
tuating field infection for years, even for farmers who are actively using other recommended
practices. Therefore, it follows that those farmers who suspend the use of cutting tools in the
same field for at least three months and practice removal of all infected plants will gradually
reduce the number of infected plants to zero. It, therefore, reduces the cost of BXW control and
improves farmer confidence in BXW control measures.
The FFS approach that was coordinated by NARO and the Food and Agricultural Organization
(FAO) worked in Uganda to effectively disseminate information and equip farmers with knowledge
to control BXW. In Uganda, it has been reported that the proportion of fields that had low BXW
infection (<10 infected plants) was higher on sites that hosted FFS (68%) than in sites with farmers
that employed community action (51%) or accessed information and technologies for BXW control
traditionally (38%) in the East Africa highland banana cropping system. A similar trend was
reported for the Kayinja cropping system where farms with low BXW infection were observed in
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6. Conclusion
Banana (Musa sp.) is the fourth most edible global food crop plant after rice, wheat and maize in
contrast to its vast production. Nowadays the production and yield of banana are mostly affected
by banana bacterial wilt pathogen (Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum). Since banana is
a key component of east and central Africa farming communities, the banana production losses
resulted in a significant reduction in household food security and incomes. The management of the
pathogen is very important in order to increase its production and reduce its yield loss. The use of
different management practices separately is not sufficient for controlling this deadly bacterial
disease, therefore creating awareness on using of integrated pest management tactics is best
option to eradicate the bacteria. In addition to this isolation and characterization of endophyte
bacterial antagonistic agents against bacterial wilt of banana (Xanthomonas campestris pv. musa-
cearum) from different ensete and banana growing regions should be made to find effective
isolates that can widely suppress bacterial wilt of banana.
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