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BBTV-infected plants are infectious earlier than previously thought!

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Crew, K. S. (2023) BBTV-infected plants are infectious earlier than previously thought! In: Australian Banana Industry Congress 2023, 17-19th May 2023, Cairns, Australia.

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Abstract

Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) is spread in infected planting material and over shorter distances by aphid vectors (Pentalonia sp). Disease control in a plantation relies on a program incorporating the use of clean planting material, regular inspection, and eradication of infected plants before they can act as a source of further infection. Transmission is thought to occur only from symptomatic leaves. Usually, an infected plant produces two or more asymptomatic leaves before the first symptoms appear on the newly emerging leaf. Only this and subsequently formed leaves will be symptomatic. The timing of newly infected plants becoming infectious determines the allowable interval between inspections to limit disease spread. However, using data from a farm with a recalcitrant BBTV epidemic, computer modelling suggested that virus transmission was occurring earlier than assumed.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Corporate Creators:Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland
Business groups:Horticulture and Forestry Science
Subjects:Plant culture > Fruit and fruit culture > Culture of individual fruits or types of fruit > Bananas
Plant pests and diseases
Plant pests and diseases > Plant pathology
Live Archive:05 Mar 2024 03:42
Last Modified:05 Mar 2024 03:42

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