Abstract
HUMAN pathology has naturally had first claim upon the services of the investigator of disease, but a study of plant diseases is probably equally essential to human progress, and the timely review in Science Progress (No. 67, January 1923), by Dr. E. J. Butler, director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology, bears eloquent witness to the great activity with which the special problems of plant pathology are now being attacked. It was only towards the close of the last century that the propagation of disease in plants was shown to be effected in some cases by a filterable virus, but since then facts and theories as to virus transmission have followed in rapid succession from various Continental and American laboratories. Very few observations have so far come from British laboratories, and it may be hoped that the very comprehensive and critical review presented by Dr. Butler will direct more attention to this fascinating field of work.
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Virus Diseases of Plants. Nature 111, 551 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111551a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111551a0