Acceptance of Tobacco Mosaic Virus by Established Tomato Root Cultures

Authors

Valerie Halverson, Marshalltown Community Schools

Document Type

Article

Abstract

With Haberlandt's idea of cultivating individual cells in vitro, cell tissue culture began in 1902. Sporadic work was done in this area through the ensuing years. However, it was not until White's cultivation of tomato roots for an indefinite time span in 1934 that culture study became significant. Most work has been oriented toward the study of the growth and function of the cell. The research has included various nutritional and environmental studies. The proposition of this research is to use established technique for culturing tomato roots in order to go a step further, and use these cultures to study the effect of the virus on the cell. Virologists have been extremely interested in how the virus attacks the cell.

Publication Date

February 1968

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers' Journal

Volume

5

Issue

3

First Page

29

Last Page

32

Copyright

© Copyright 1968 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Halverson, Valerie (1968) "Acceptance of Tobacco Mosaic Virus by Established Tomato Root Cultures," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 5: No. 3, Article 16.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol5/iss3/16