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You can eliminate a virus from a plant but it is difficult and costly. It is only undertaken if the plant is valuable and can be propagated by cuttings after treatment. The most common way is by heat treatment. The plant is grown at high temperature in a temperature controlled growth room at 36-42 degrees C. for 4-8 weeks. Most plants are hard to keep alive at this temperature so require very careful attention. Then small cuttings about 1-10 mm in size from a part of the plant called the meristem (the growing tip) are exsised, sterilised and then grown in tissue culture. These cuttings are further multiplied in tissue culture, rooted and planted then out. Not all plants will be will be virus free so have to be tested after growing on and sometimes no plants will be virus free. The process is very expensive and requires a large amount of skill and there are no guarantees. It takes 6-12 months to have tested clean plants at the end. Virus elimination is only done if no virus free plants of that variety can be found. There is no way to eliminate virus from a plant in the field.
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What happens when a virus enters a plant cell?
The cell becomes a virus breeding machine the virus takes over the cell and uses it to make more viruses
What would be the impact on the environment if an artificial virus that attacked and destroyed chloroplasts in plant cells was accidentally released by a research company?
The plant will die because the plant will not be able to make any sugar (food) for itself.
How are plants affected by viruses?
You Got To See Wat Kind Of Virus Somekind Wont Have Affect On Plants,Buts Scientist Still Havent Found Out Whether There Is Virus Only Affected In Plants.I Hope This Will Help You On Whatever You Are Doing.
What part of the cell captures energy from sunlight and uses it to produce food for the cell?
The chlorophyll in the chloroplasts of PLANT cells does this.
A simple organism that can only reproduce within a living plant or animal cell they often cause disease?
that's a virus.
Is seaweed a virus?
No its a plant that grows at the bottom of the ocean. Not a virus.
What was the first plant virus to be identified?
Tobacco Mosaic Virus.
What was the first plant virus ever identified?
Tobacco mosaic virus, was discovered by the two scientists
What has the author F C Bawden written?
F. C. Bawden has written: 'Plant diseases' 'Plant viruses and virus diseases' 'Plant viruses and plant diseases' 'Plant viruses and virus diseases' 'Plant Diseases' 'Plant diseases'
How do you eliminate a bloodhound virus?
Click on the link to your right for a free online PC scan.
Can a plant get a virus?
Many. Google tobacco mosaic virus.
What is the aim of the player in the Retrovirus computer game?
The air of the player in the Retrovirus computer game is to find and eliminate the virus. One has a number of anti virus tools available to try and defeat the virus.
The difference between vertical and horizontal transmission of plant viruses is that?
The correct reponse is that vertical transmission is transmission of a virus from a parent plant to its progeny, and horizontal transmission is one plant spreading the virus to another plant.
Is poison oak a bacteria or a virus?
Poison oak is a green plant, not a bacteria or virus.
What is name of virus that attack on plant?
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How do you treat pepper leaf curl virus?
Throw the plant away. Once a plant is infected with a virus there is no way to cure it unless you have a lab to do tissue culture.
Can you get a computer virus from mp3 rocket?
Yes. Whenever downloading a file there I always a risk of getting a virus. Always use spyware and anti virus. To eliminate the virus threats scan each file before you open them and you should be good. Happy downloading.
