Transmission to other plants completes a virus’s life cycle. History The first plant virus to be discovered was found on the leaves of tobacco plants in the late 19th Century.

Santos Silva discovered that the cowpea mosaic virus could not penetrate the vascular system of some tobacco plants. In the future, researchers want to establish the reason for this.

This vaccine is different in that it is developed through the creation of an entirely separate virus — the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. “We’ve been able to genetically engineer a plant virus,” Arntzen said. ...

Research to date has unveiled a remarkable chemical diversity among metabolites derived from tobacco species, including flavonoids, isoflavones, isoindolin-1-ones and sesquiterpenes.

STRAINS of tobacco mosaic virus differ markedly in sensitivity to inactivation with ultra-violet light1. It is of interest to determine the basis for this difference in terms of the chemical ...

Journal of Plant Pathology, Vol. 101, No. 3 (August 2019), pp. 719-723 (5 pages) Tomato, a top cash crop, is infected by a number of viruses that cause drastic yield losses. Recently an unusual viral ...