date:Jun 14, 2019
forty-nine thrips were used in the experiment. The investigators determined whether or not individual thrips had become infected with IYSV by testing for presence of a IYSV nucleoprotein gene using a technique known as reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Previous studies did not determine whether thrips were infected with tospoviruses; by determining infection status, Leach and colleagues created greater statistical power than was available in previous work.
Of the 149 thrips teste