Re: SEED GIVEAWAY - CORRECTION
>In a message dated 04/13/2000 8:41:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>greatpumpkin99@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< I did the
> testing myself on a sample of the seeds (mixed and pulverized) from this
> pumpkin using bioindicator innoculation, which is very accurate, even for
> detecting unknown or rare viruses or other pathogens affecting cucurbits.
> The tests came out clean, and ruled out any cucumovirus, potyvirus, etc.
> This was the same test I used to detect the CMV present in foliar and sap
> samples last season in my other plants.
> If it would make anyone feel better (or maybe just for my personal
> satisfaction of making certain people here eat their words), I might send
> another sample to a professional testing facility to screen using a
> double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (DAS ELISA)
> process, and a hybridization process where RNA and DNA are extracted
>(used
> to detect viroids), as well as a test for phytoplasmas using a polymerase
> chain reaction process, where an enzyme is used to copy DNA to detect if
>any
> phytoplasmas are present. This would cost me A LOT, and is beyond
>overkill,
> since the plant had no virus symptoms at all, and especially since CMV is
> not even reported (not even once) to be transmitted via seed in c. maxima
> whatsoever, but HEY, why not.... It would be fun having an official
>document
> to flash around.
>
> -Steve Sedlar
COMPUTRESE@aol.com writes:
>What text book or encyclopedia did this get plagiarized from???
>
I got it from over a year of intensive research into viruses, and my
knowledge (which is more than you apparently think I have) about botany,
plant growth and pathogens, as I have said before.
Anyway, tell me what part you don't understand and I will explain it to you.
-Steve
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