![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107004259im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field New Structural Information About a Destructive Group of Plant Viruses Could Lead to New Ways to Improve Crop Yields
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October 1, 2008
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An interdisciplinary group of scientists has obtained the first detailed information about the structure of the most destructive group of plant viruses known: flexible filamentous viruses.
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Source Vanderbilt University
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