Why we should care about pathogenic viruses in our plants
Adam Fikso (Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:31:00 PDT)

Thanks, Lee. You raise a question that I've not checked out: Why not
vaccines for plants? Maybe no antibodies? The only thing I'm aware of in
this area is acetylsalicylic acid as a trigger for what approximates an
immune respnse in plants,and I followed that literature for a while and
occasionally drench a n endangered plant of mine with an aspirin solution to
help it get well. Haven't kept any records though except to note that it
doesn't help arisaemas infected wtih Uromyces. It appears at first to
help-- but they're don't survive to the next year..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Poulsen" <wpoulsen@pacbell.net>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Why we should care about pathogenic viruses in our plants

Jacob Knecht wrote:

I enjoyed Jacob's essay and it caused me to think of a couple of points:

1. Not only are some microorganisms not bad, the "flora" in human
gastrointestinal system for example, which we've known about for years,
is considered to be essential. So much so, that scientists decided to