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Originally Posted by raygrogan
In the experiments that proved dirty tools OK, they hacked sick plants, then healthy plants, no effects? What about innoculating plants to see if they resist BBTV, what do they use, some probe that is the same size as the aphid?
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For some viruses, inoculations can be done by grinding up an infected leaf and mashing it into a healthy plant, this does not work with BBTV. For cutting tests, it is quite simple, cut an infected plant with a tool, then cut a non-infected plants, protect them from aphids, and see what happens.
For inoculations with BBTV, you take aphids from a plant with the virus and move them to plants without the virus, and then they will transmit the virus.