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IN a series of observations, Vinson and Petre1 claim that the virus disease of tobacco mosaic behaves as a chemical compound. We have repeated this work in detail and confirmed it in every particular, and we are also of the opinion that the virus in this case behaves as a chemical compound and not as a living organism.
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Contrib. Boyce Thompson Instit., 1, 479; 1929. 3, 131; 1931. See also Vinson, Phytopath., 23, 35; 1933.
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BARTON-WRIGHT, E., McBAIN, A. Possible Chemical Nature of Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Nature 132, 1003–1004 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/1321003b0
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