Screening Musa genotypes for banana bunchy top disease resistance in Burundi

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 897, Issue , 2011, Pages 439-448

  Niyongere, C ^a,b   Ateka, E ^b   Losenge, T ^b   Blomme, G ^c   Lepoint, P ^c  

^a Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU)   (Burundi)

^b JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^c BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Banana bunchy top virus; Disease incidence; Latent infections; Pentalonia nigronervosa

Indexed keywords

BABUVIRUS; BANANA BUNCHY TOP VIRUS; MUSA; MUSA ACUMINATA; MUSA BALBISIANA; PENTALONIA NIGRONERVOSA;

EID: 80053362966     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2011.897.60     Document Type: Conference Paper

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