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Functional sample - blueberry isolate of blueberry latent virus (BBLV)

The collaboration of scientists from the Plant Virology team of the Biological Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic with the National Center for Agricultural and Food Research and the company Jan Holub, s.r. o. led to the successful preparation and molecular characterization of a functional sample of the blueberry latent virus (BBLV) in the Canadian blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum L.

[Technical documentation of the functional sample - PDF (Czech only)]

Exclusion of phantom agents from plant protection legislation

"Simplifying the global exchange of plant genetic resources: combining a scientific approach and common sense to exclude phantom agents from regulation". Prof. Špak reports on the article in the prestigious journal Plant Disease, written by more than 140 leading phytopathologists from around the world, including authors from the Plant Virology team of the Biological Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in an article for the third issue of the journal "Rostlinolékař" (Czech text only).

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