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How maths modelling helps efforts to eradicate banana bunchy top virus – Phys.org
Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) is an aphid-transmitted banana disease that has been in Australia since 1913 and has been contained by biosecurity agencies to southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales. Badly affected plants will not produce fruit if le…
Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) is an aphid-transmitted banana disease that has been in Australia since 1913 and has been contained by biosecurity agencies to southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales. Badly affected plants will not produce fruit if left unchecked and entire plantations can become infested. BBTV cannot be cured and infected plants must be destroyed.
QUT researchers have designed a model that tracked the probability of a banana plant being infected by aphids that carried …
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