Virus

[Gin]

Grab the Aspirin bottle, heavy reading ahead

Plant viruses

[dmc]

In reading the the above, it is just like your mother told you & that is "Milk does a body good" It is in there.

Diane

[unhappykat]

interesting and informative, thanks.

[Shirley]

Thanks, Gin, for all that info. Golly, that's a lot to absorb! Do we just start washing our plants with milk?

[Gin]

I have a hard time buying that one .. Gin

[DebsC]

I think I need more than just a bottle of aspirins after reading all that! Something stronger than milk!!

I can't imagination what would be in milk that would help control virus.

[CoolPhrog]

vitamin D, maybe?

[camille1585]

Thanks for that article Gin, I found that super interesting, since I'm doing my master's degree in plant pathology. Sounds like my classes from last year! The milk thing seems weird, but I have heard of it before, I think as an experimental technique for sterilizing hands and tools. It has something to do with the proteins in the milk reacting with the coat proteins of the virus, and the virus is unable to replicate (Tomato Mosaic Virus being one of them). I think it only works with certain plant viruses. I'll look it up in my textbooks, or ask one of my professors about it.

Got Milk anyone?