''Banana streak MY virus'' (BSMYV) is a
plant virus that causes banana streak disease of
banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguis ...
(''Musa'') species, which results in
chlorotic streaks in the leaves and a reduced crop. The virus has been recovered from Australia, India and Tonga. It is composed of a double-stranded DNA
genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding ge ...
and may exist in either an infectious
episomal form or an endogenous form which is integrated into the host DNA. It is spread by several species of
mealy bug.
References
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Caulimoviridae
Viral plant pathogens and diseases