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Tobacco mosaic virus has been known to cause a production loss for flue cured tobacco of up to two percent in North Carolina. [33] It is known to infect members of nine plant families, and at least 125 individual species, including tobacco, tomato , pepper (all members of the Solanaceae ), cucumbers , a number of ornamental flowers , [ 34 ] and ...
[3] [4] The name Tobamovirus comes from the host and symptoms of the first virus discovered (Tobacco mosaic virus). [5] There are four informal subgroups within this genus: these are the tobamoviruses that infect the brassicas, cucurbits, malvaceous, and solanaceous plants. The main differences between these groups are genome sequences, and ...
Comparison between crystallisation of salt (left) and Tobacco Mosaic virus (right) as seen through electron microscopy. Virus crystallisation is the re-arrangement of viral components into solid crystal particles. [1] The crystals are composed of thousands of inactive forms of a particular virus arranged in the shape of a prism. [2]
Adolf Eduard Mayer (9 August 1843 – 25 December 1942) was a German agricultural biologist whose work on tobacco mosaic disease played an important role in the discovery of tobacco mosaic virus and viruses in general. Mayer was born in 1843 into the family of a high school teacher in Oldenburg.
It was coined by Tony Waterson (professor of virology at St Thomas' Hospital) [7] [8] [9] in a meeting with his colleagues June Almeida and David Tyrrell, the founding fathers of coronavirus studies, and was first used in a Nature article in 1968, [10] with approval by the International Committee for the Nomenclature of Viruses three years ...
Amid growing anxieties surrounding reported drone sightings, the FBI has issued a warning against a new trend of pointing lasers at aircrafts.
The Governors Ball festival will ring in its 15th birthday this summer with a lineup led by Tyler, the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo and Hozier at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, N.Y., on June 6-8.
Helen Alice Purdy Beale, (September 19, 1893 – November 5, 1976) was an American virologist who made significant contributions to the fields of plant virology and immunology.