Making a Virus Visible: Francis O. Holmes and a Biological Assay for Tobacco mosaic virus

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 107-145

  Scholthof, Karen Beth G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; Genetics; Plant pathology; Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; Scientific institutions; Tobacco; Tobacco mosaic virus; Twentieth century biology; Virology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PLANT DISEASE; TOBACCO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; NEW YORK; PLANT DISEASES; TOBACCO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 84895068816     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10739-013-9353-0     Document Type: Article

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