01714naa a2200193 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000120006024501340007226000090020652011390021565000110135465000150136565000110138065300260139170000130141770000220143077300680145211882592025-07-09       2005    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aMARINHO  aInterceptação, pelo Serviço de Quarentena, de vírus em mudas meristemáticas de bananeiras importadas.h[electronic resource]  c2005  aIn 2003, banana (Musa sp.) producers located in the Northeast Region of Brazil imported a great number of micropropagated banana plantlets with the objective of enhancing production for exportation and internal consumption. Although it is an important activity for agribusiness, these importations can introduce and/or spread exotic and economically important pests to Brazil, causing serious damage to our agriculture. With the objective of minimizing the risk of virus introduction, representative samples from a group of 140,000 banana buds imported from Costa Rica were analyzed by ELISA tests at the Quarantine Laboratory of Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (Cenargen). Banana bract mosaic virus, which is an exotic virus to Brazil and Banana streak virus were detected in the analyzed material. Although the acquisition of new genotypes is very important for the implementation of banana production in Brazil, it is shown here that the risk of introduction and dissemination of viruses associated with the material is real, and therefore, the need of phytosanitary measures to minimize those risks must be emphasized.  aBanana  aQuarentena  aVírus  aMudas Meristemáticas1 aV. L. A.1 aBATISTA, M. de F.  tFitopatologia Brasileira, Brasíliagv. 30, n. 5, p. 552, 2005.