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Moving targets

Nature volume 408, pages 150–151 (2000)Cite this article

Viruses have evolved several strategies to attack plants, but the plants keep hitting back. So the viruses have upped the ante by stopping the plants' immune response from spreading to uninfected tissues.

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Figure 1: Plants may have a two-pronged strategy for silencing viruses, as suggested by Voinnet et al.1.

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