Evidence for Dicot Plants as Alternative Hosts of Banana Bunchy Top Virus and Its Alphasatellites in South-East Asia.

ABSTRACT: Banana bunchy top virus is a multicomponent circular ssDNA virus (family Nanoviridae) that causes one of the most devastating diseases of cultivated bananas and plantains (family Musaceae). It is transmitted by the aphids Pentalonia nigronervosa and P. caladii among host plants of Musaceae and some other families of monocots. Our Illumina sequencing reconstruction of virome components of BBTV-infected banana plants and their neighbor non-banana plants sampled in Vietnam and Laos revealed the monocot Commelina sp. (Commelinaceae) and the dicots Bidens pilosa and Chromolaena odorata (both Asteraceae) as hosts of BBTV and circular ssDNA alphasatellites (family Alphasatellitidae). Counting the proportions and relative abundances of Illumina read

SUBMITTER: Guyot V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10675457 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature