01390naa a2200217 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000160006024500950007626000090017152007810018065000090096165000120097065000220098265000280100465300090103265300230104170000210106470000170108577300700110216463902023-05-17       1989    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aDREW, R. A.  aThe transmission of banana bunchy-top virus in microagated bananas.h[electronic resource]  c1989  aPlants were established in vitro from banana bunchy-top virus (BBTV) infected plants.Explants containing either vegetative shoot appices or terminal floral apices were used to initiate cultures. Plants multiplied im culture were indistinguishable from non-infected (control Plants and lacked characteristic symptoms of BBTV infection. After 16 months in culture plants were established the glasshouse and after 1 month in pots seme plants strated to show symptoms of the disease. After a further 5 months 73% of the plants showed characteristic symptoms of the plants showed characteristic symptoms of the disease while 27% were sympyomless amd similar in appearance to control plants. The plants have beeg grown to maturity in the field without showing recognizable symptoms.  aMusa  aDoença  aMicropropagação  aPentalonia Nigronervosa  aBBTV  aCultivar cavendish1 aMOISANDER, J. A.1 aSMITH, M. K.  tPlant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culturegv.16, n.3, p.178-193, 1989.