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symptoms of Banana bunchy top virus © Malcolm Manners (CC By licence)

Symptoms of Banana bunchy top virus © Malcolm Manners (CC BY licence)

We’ve selected a few of the latest new geographic, host and species records for plant pests and diseases from CAB Abstracts. Records this fortnight include the first report of Banana bunchy top virus of Musa spp. in Nigeria, the first record of the leafhopper genus Igerna in China and a new Pythium species that causes severe damping off of tomato seedlings found in Tunisia, France and India.

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