Claim · #6495435
Banana bunchy top virus · pathogen pressure · Musa paradisiaca
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) Musa paradisiaca”
- Authors
- University of Guam, College of Natural and Applied Sciences
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- University of Guam Cooperative Extension & Outreach / Agricultural Experiment Station
- Page
- 3
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“BBTV (Babuvirus, Nanoviridae) is a major banana pathogen vectored by Pentalonia nigronervosa; Guam/Pacific occurrence well-documented.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Banana bunchy top virus on Musa is canonical; whole-plant stunting/foliar bunching matches BBTV pathology. Virus name derives from symptom not host — no eponymous conflation.”
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