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Plant virology.
Current biology : CB - 5 Jun 2023
Xavier César A D, Whitfield Anna E
Abstract excerpt
The first infectious agent to bear the name 'virus' was described in 1898: a plant pathogen called tobacco mosaic virus that infects a wide range of plants and results in a yellow mosaic of the leaves. Since then, the study of plant viruses has facilitated new discoveries in both virology and plant biology. Traditionally, research has focused on viruses that cause severe disease in plants used for human and...
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