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3.34: Virus Bioassay

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    Materials

    • plant grow lights
    • tomato or bean seeds
    • rolling tobacco (3 different brands mixed together) (1 gram per group)
    • Tobacco Mosaic Virus Inoculation Kit (1 per class)*
    • 50 mL beakers (1 per group)
    • mortar and pestle (enough for groups to share)
    • balances (enough for groups to share)
    • weigh papers/boats (1 per group)
    Note

    *I have found the beans they provide in this kit difficult to grow. Unless you are good at growing these types of beans, recommend to use seed packets for tomato or bean plants and follow the instructions on the packet.


    This page titled 3.34: Virus Bioassay is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Rosanna Hartline.

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