Cameroonian isolates of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae as a potential tool against Pentalonia nigronervosa populations, Banana bunchy top virus vector

The project aims to develop management strategies to enable continued banana-plantain production in areas of Sub-Saharan Africa severely affected by banana bunchy top disease, restrict further spread of the disease, and search in Southeast Asia for banana germplasm resistant to BBTV for use in breeding resistant varieties.