International Collaboration Leads to Important Plant Virus Discovery

摘要

PROSSER, Wash. - Tri Asmira Damayanti, a lecturer and researcher at Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia, came to Washington State University's Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension. Center three months ago to learn the latest techniques in detection of plant viruses. What she may not have counted on discovering was a plant virus in sample extracts of tomatoes and peppers she brought from Indonesia and previously undetected there.