Judel Jay Tabsing of Panabo National High School won fourth place in the plant sciences division of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for developing a possible fungicide for the dreaded "banana blight". Banana blight is caused by a particular type of fungus that quickly spreads from plant to plant, potentially wiping out an entire country's supply of bananas. In the 1950s, the blight spread through central America from Panama –hence the term, "Panama Disease".
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