Structure of plant viruses is determined

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