Incidence of cassava mosaic disease and associated white fly vectors in South West and North Central Nigeria: Data exploration
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Cassavamosaicdisease(CMD)isoneofthemosteconomically
importantviraldiseasesofcassava,animportantstaplefoodforover
800millionpeopleinthetropics.Althoughseveral Cassavamosaic
virus speciesassociatedwithCMDhavebeenisolatedandcharacter-
izedovertheyears,severalnewsupervirulentstrainsoftheseviruses
haveevolvedduetogeneticrecombinationbetweendiversespecies.In
this dataarticle, fieldsurveydatacollectedfrom184cassavafarmsin
12SouthWesternandNorthCentralStatesofNigeriain2015are
presentedandextensivelyexplored.IneachState,onecassavafarm
wasrandomlyselectedasthe firstfarmandsubsequentfarmswere
selectedat10kmintervals,exceptinlocationswerecassavafarmsare
sporadicallylocated.Ineachselectedfarm,30cassavaplantswere
sampledalongtwodiagonalsandallselectedplantwasscoredforthe
presenceorabsenceofCMDsymptoms.Cassavamosaicdiseaseinci-
denceandassociatedwhitefly vectorsinSouthWestandNorthCentral
Nigeriaareexploredusingrelevantdescriptivestatistics,boxplots,bar
charts,linegraphs,andpiecharts.Inaddition,correlationanalysis,
AnalysisofVariance(ANOVA),andmultiplecomparisonpost-hoctests
areperformedtounderstandtherelationshipbetweenthenumbersof
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Q Science (General), QH301 Biology