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. 1999 Mar 29;354(1383):645–651. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0416

Tobacco mosaic virus virulence and avirulence.

W O Dawson 1
PMCID: PMC1692533  PMID: 10212944

Abstract

In celebration of a century of research on tobacco mosaic virus that initiated the science of virology, I review recent progress relative to earlier contributions concerning how viruses cause diseases of plants and how plants defend themselves from viruses.

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