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A successful defensive response prevents the virus from spreading in the plant,” says Docent Kristiina Mäkinen from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki. Viruses can hijack ...

Virus sample preparation. Plant leaves with the symptoms of viral infection were harvested 1 or 2 weeks after mechanical inoculation. Then, the viruses were purified from the infected leaves using ...

Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs. The ...

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Warmer and wetter weather has been linked to higher rates of infection in an analysis of plant virus outbreaks across the world from 1984 to 2019. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.

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