53, No. 8, Nov., 1926 A Cytological Study of the Leaves and Gr... A Cytological Study of the Leaves and Growing Points of Healthy and Mosaic Diseased Tobacco Plants This is the metadata section. Skip ...
German agricultural chemist Adolf Eduard Mayer made a startling discovery in 1886. He was studying mosaic disease on tobacco ...
Its name comes from the mosaic-like pattern it causes on the leaves of infected plants. Studies of TMV — including the purification of the virus in the late 1800s, followed by the ...