An Air-borne Plant Virus
Abstract
IN a recent issue of NATURE1, Dr. Kenneth Smith described the virus of a new disease of plants as being ``air-borne''. The term in this connexion implies: (1) that the virus agent can escape from the tissues of the infected plant into the air under natural conditions; (2) that it is carried in the air; and (3) that the air-carried virus can infect a normal healthy plant.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- May 1937
- DOI:
- 10.1038/139761b0
- Bibcode:
- 1937Natur.139..761C