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SINCE many workers in widely divergent fields are interested in the biological effects of ionizing radiations, new methods of approach to this study may have wider application than is at first realized. This communication reports that ultra-violet irradiation of tobacco infected with potato virus Y can reduce the availability of virus to aphids without causing apparent injury to the plants or greatly reducing the infectivity of sap extracts as measured by starch – iodine lesions.
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BRADLEY, R. Ultra-Violet Irradiation of Tobacco infected with Potato Virus Y and the Availability of Virus to Aphids. Nature 173, 350 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173350a0
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