Banana Bract Mosaic Virus
Potyvirus sp.
Bananaviral
An aphid-transmitted virus causing mosaic streaking on pseudostems, leaves, and bracts.
Symptoms
Mosaic streaking on the pseudostem, leaves, and flower bracts, with reduced bunch quality.
Favorable conditions
- •Aphid vectors moving between infected and healthy plants
- •Infected suckers used as planting material
Management
- 1Use certified virus-free tissue-culture planting material
- 2Control aphid vectors
- 3Rogue out and destroy infected plants
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