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Effect of Banana Bunchy Top Virus On The Interaction Between Banana Aphids and Banana Trees

This poster summarizes research on the effect of Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) on the interaction between banana aphids and banana trees. The study found that BBTV infection causes banana trees to produce higher quantities of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are more attractive to the banana aphid vector. Infected banana trees produce VOCs of the same type as healthy trees but in greater amounts. Additionally, plantain banana trees produce different and higher quantities of VOCs than dessert banana trees, making them more attractive to banana aphids. This modification of banana tree phenotypes by BBTV infection could open opportunities for biological control of banana aphids through manipulation of olfactory cues.

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Effect of Banana Bunchy Top Virus On The Interaction Between Banana Aphids and Banana Trees

This poster summarizes research on the effect of Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) on the interaction between banana aphids and banana trees. The study found that BBTV infection causes banana trees to produce higher quantities of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are more attractive to the banana aphid vector. Infected banana trees produce VOCs of the same type as healthy trees but in greater amounts. Additionally, plantain banana trees produce different and higher quantities of VOCs than dessert banana trees, making them more attractive to banana aphids. This modification of banana tree phenotypes by BBTV infection could open opportunities for biological control of banana aphids through manipulation of olfactory cues.

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Effect of Banana Bunchy Top Virus on the interaction between banana aphids
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Effect of Banana Bunchy Top Virus on the interaction between banana aphids
and banana trees
Ignace Safari Murhububa1,2, K. Tougeron1, C. Bragard1, T. Hance1
1Earth and Life Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Introduction
• Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) is the most devastating viral disease of banana tree and plantain (Musa
Spp) in the world (1,2).
• It is transmitted by the banana aphid, Pentalonia nigronervosa Coquerel (Homoptera: Aphididae) (1,2).
• The recognition of host plants by phytophagous insects and of the latter by their natural enemies is
mediated by volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by plants (3), and whose qualities and quantities
may vary with infection phytoviruses (3).
• Rational use of the odors emitted by banana trees, in combination with certain natural enemies of aphids,
would prevent the colonization of banana trees by P. nigronervosa Coquerel.

Objectif
• Identify the VOCs emitted by healthy and infected banana trees, having an influence on the feeding
behavior of P. nigronervosa Coquerel.

Materials Methods
• Virus detection by PCR,
• A strain of P. nigronervosa Coquerel • Attractivity test of aphids to banana
from DRC trees using a two-column olfactometer,
• Isolation of VOCs by a dynamic
• Symptomatic and asymptomatic extraction system and their
bananas (plantains and desserts). identification by GC-MS.
Two-column VOC isolation
olfactometer

Results

Health status of banana trees Banana trees genotyping

Discrimination between healthy and infected banana trees, and between


dessert banana and plantain banana trees

Infected banana produce VOCs of the same nature as healthy


banana trees, but in much higher quantities. In addition, the
Attractivité des bananiers par les pucerons
VOCs produced by dessert banana and plantain banana trees
are of a different nature, and plantains produced higher quantities
P. nigronervosa is more attracted to infected banana than to healthy
than dessert banana trees.
banana trees; and to plantains banana than to dessert banana trees

Conclusion References
• BBTV therefore induces modifications in the phenotypes of banana trees, and pushes 1. Quazi, J. 2016. Gen Plant Pathol 82, 2-11.
them to produce quantities of VOCs more attractive to P. nigronervosa. 2. Caruana-Iskra, M.L. 2003. Banana Bunchy Top
• This study opens interesting opportunities for biological control of P. nigronervosa, for Babuvirus-BBTV Zones ARP: Martinique, 7-14.
example by luring away the aphid from banana trees through manipulation of 3. Eigenbrode, S.D., Bosque-Pérez, N.A. and T.S., Davis.
olfactory cues. 2018. Annual Review of Entomology 63:169-191.
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