Counting Plants

[DANDERSON at PRL.PULMONARY.UBC.CA]

tdiener at asrr.arsusda.gov (ncel) wrote:

>...(off at the knees)..... "RNA by itself is infectious when inoculated into susceptible plants 
>with the production of a normal crop of progeny virus (with capsids). But 
>then, I guess, to medics plants don't count. They sure rely on them, however,
>for survival!"

>Ted Diener 

Plants do count! For example, have you read the last issue of 
Science?

Dan Anderson
UNMC/UBC