Structure of plant viruses is determined
Date: 10.10.2008
U.S. scientists say they've used modern imaging techniques to detail the structure of **plant viruses** in a study that may lead to better **crop protection**.
Vanderbilt University structural biologist Gerald Stubbs, the study's lead author, said flexible filamentous viruses make up a large fraction of known plant viruses and cause more than half the viral damage to the world's crop plants but details of their structures were poorly understood.
Source "greenbio.checkbiotech.org":[ http://greenbio.checkbiotech.org/news/2008-10-09/Structure_of_plant_viruses_is_determined/]
