Diversity, frequency and geographic distribution of bacterial endosymbionts in banana aphids in Cameroon

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 to search in Southeast Asia for banana germplasm resistant to BBTV for use in breeding resistant varieties.

本项目旨在制定病害防控管理策略，以保障受香蕉束顶病严重侵害的撒哈拉以南非洲地区能够持续开展香蕉与大蕉的种植生产，遏制该病害的进一步扩散；同时将在东南亚地区搜寻抗香蕉束顶病毒（Banana Bunchy Top Virus, BBTV）的香蕉种质资源，用于抗病品种的选育工作。