Table 2.

Scales of grades for assessing symptoms of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense reported in articles on banana breeding to Fusarium wilt conducted in the last ten years.

Article	Internal Symptoms	External Symptoms		Scale Reference
	Rhizome Discoloration	Yellowing of the Leaf	Pseudostem Division
	Degrees of Scale
Yip et al. [69]	0–3			[69] *
Orr et al. [70]	1–6			[71]
Chen et al. [72]	1–8			[68]
Warman and Aitken [46]	1–6			[66]
Baharum et al. [73]	1–8			[68]
Zhang et al. [74]	0–4	0–4		[75,76]
Zuo et al. [77]	1–5			[77] *
Ribeiro et al. [78]	0–5	0–4		[67,79]
Wei et al. [80]		0–4		[80] *
Garcez et al. [81]	0–5	0–5		[67,82]
Li et al. [75]	0–3	0–3		[75] *
Ghag et al. [83]		1–6		[66]
Smith et al. [84]	1–6			[65,85]
Mohandas et al. [86]	1–6	0–5		[65,87]
Ting et al. [88]		0–5		[88] *
Paul et al. [89]		1–5	1–3	[89] *
Sun et al. [90]	1–5	1–5		[64,91]
Wu et al. [92]		1–6		[92] **
Ssali et al. [93]		1–6		[94]
Li et al. [95]	0–4	0–5		[95] *
Ghag et al. [96]		1–6		[96] *
Saraswathi et al. [97]	1–5	1–5		[66,91]
Ghag et al. [98]		1–6		[83]
Sun et al. [76]		0–4		[76] *
Wu et al. [99]		1–6		[99] **
Magambo et al. [100]		1–5	1–3	[68]
Smith et al. [101]	1–6			[65]
García-Bastidas et al. [102]	1–6	1–4		[102] *
Arinaitwe et al. [31]	1–5	1–6	1–3	[71]
Cheng et al. [103]	1–8			[68]
Gonçalves et al. [33]	1–5	1–6		[67,104]
Buregyeya et al. [105]	1–6		1–3	[94]
Sunisha et al. [106]		1–5	1–3	[89]
Rocha et al. [107]	1–5	1–4		[104]
Ahmad et al. [108]	1–6	1–4		[102]

* use their own scale; ** in vitro.