| identification and characterization of a distinct banana bunchy top virus isolate of pacific-indian oceans group from north-east india. | banana bunch top virus (bbtv) is considered to be a serious threat to banana production. a new isolate of the virus (bbtv-umiam) was identified and characterized from local banana mats growing in mid-hills of meghalaya in north-east india. the complete nucleotide sequence analysis revealed the presence of six full-length ssdna components (dna r, dna u3, dna s, dna m, dna c and dna n) sharing major common region (cr-m) and a stem-loop common region (cr-sl). bbtv-umiam showed a unique deletion of ... | 2014 | 24468493 |