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PRIOR infection of a plant with a virus may prevent or interfere with the production of local lesions or systemic infection of a strain of the same virus1. This interference or cross-protection is used as a criterion for relating plant viruses. The experiments briefly reported here are part of a study on interference between serologically related viruses although sero-logically unrelated viruses were included to observe the specificity of the reaction. Interference occurred not only between the related but also between the apparently unrelated viruses.
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THOMSON, A. Interference between Plant Viruses. Nature 181, 1547–1548 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811547a0
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