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Science 3 December 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5446, p. 1835
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5446.1835
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PLANT PATHOLOGY:
Geminiviruses Emerge as Serious Crop Threat

Anne Simon Moffat

Geminiviruses, once thought to cause only limited crop damage, are emerging as serious threats to crops worldwide. Not only are they being spread worldwide via global transportation networks, but new geminivirus strains have emerged thanks to the viruses' penchant for swapping genetic material. And control measures, such as insecticides, are falling short. Consequently, plant genetic engineers are struggling to create resistant plants. So far, however, they have had no lasting successes, although they do have some promising leads, such as equipping plants with a protein that prevents movement of geminiviruses within plants, thereby blocking infection.

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