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Arthropods as Vectors and Reservoirs of Phytopathogenic Viruses

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The discovery that there was an intimate relationship between some plant viruses and certain insects was not made in a day. Indeed quite a long period elapsed between the time when suspicion was first aroused that insects had something to do with certain plant diseases and the realization that they injected the causal agent of the disease, whatever that was, into the plant.

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