“…However, BCMNV has occasionally been transported to other parts of the world through contaminated bean seed . Indeed, the high efficiency of seed transmission BCMV and BCMNV (see Section 7) has aided the long-distance dissemination of both viruses to many regions including: Europe (Drijfhout et al, 1978;Pasev et al, 2014;Sáiz et al, 1995), North America (Flores-Estévez et al, 2003;Kelly et al, 1983;Provvidenti et al, 1984;Tu, 1986), South America (Melgarejo et al, 2007), as well as throughout Africa itself (Njau & Lyimo, 2000;Sengooba et al, 1997;Silbernagel et al, 1986;Spence & Walkey, 1995).…”