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Cigarettes constitute a potential source of contamination in mechanical inoculation as they may contain infective tobacco mosaic Tobamovirus (TMV). This exercise is meant to demonstrate the presence of infective TMV in cigarette tobacco.
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Dijkstra, J., de Jager, C.P. (1998). Infectivity of Tobacco Mosaic Tobamovirus. In: Practical Plant Virology. Springer Lab Manual. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72030-7_4
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