Correct understanding of banana bundle top disease Banana bunchy top disease, also known as banana banana disease, bush top disease, scallion banana or shrimp banana, mainly damages bananas and sometimes plantains. It occurs in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian and Yunnan. The incidence of banana gardens with severe incidence can reach 10% -30%, or even 50% -80%, but most banana gardens occur sporadically. Plants that are susceptible to disease early are dwarfed and do not bud. Plants that are susceptible only at the current bud stage have fewer fruits and no commercial value. The most prominent symptom of banana bunchy top disease is that the newly grown leaves are shorter and narrower than one, so that the diseased plant is short, the leaves are hard and straight, and they grow together in bundles. The veins, petioles and false stems of the diseased leaves showed thick green streaks of intermittent and varying lengths. Banana farmers call the thick green stripes on the pe...
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