Categorization of banana bunchy top virus between PIO and SEA group

Study of the phylogenetic tree of the banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) clustered the same BBTV into two groups viz. Pacific Indian Ocean (PIO) groups and South East Asia (SEA) groups. The data for substantiating these were collected from NCBI nucleotide data base, and analysed with R software. Thus, the present study brings out the difference between the two groups of BBTV viruses using tests like Hotelling T², Wald Test, and draws conclusions accordingly.