Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU) is developing transgenic hill banana, which would be resistant to bunchy top virus (BBTV). Speaking to FE, P Balasubramanian of the TNAU’s centre for plant molecular biology said, ”We are planning to engineer resistance in the hill banana cultivar, Virupakshi against BBTV. A full-length 850bp replicase gene of BBTV from infected hill banana was isolated in our laboratory. The isolated sequence showed a high homology to the already reported BBTV replicase gene sequence from India in NCBI database.