Thanks to Terry Glancy and Robert Bedard for their information in the last digest. Its nice to know how virulent these viruses are. I'm glad someone is going forward with PCR protocols in virus testing. I imagine the stumbling block to expanding this to other viruses is getting the infrastructure in place. I'm always the entrepreneur, and wonder if this could become a cottage industry for retired science hobbyists, or forward thinking grad students. Heck, better yet, an underpaid tech with delusions of grandeur. *G*. (Nah, its probably prohibited in Genetech's employment contracts) Maybe there'd be some grant money out there for research into identification & isolation of other plant viruses. Anybody know J Craig Ventner personally? Maybe he'd take time away from his current project to elucidate the DNA sequences for all 40 plant viruses. http://www.sorcerer2expedition.org/version1/HTML/main.htm
"I got vision and the rest of the world's wearing bifocals"
Butch Cassidy Barrett
N Calif, USA
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