• Question: Can plants catch viruses?

    Asked by anon-307289 to David on 19 Jan 2022.
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      David Burnett answered on 19 Jan 2022:

      Yes, they can!

      There are millions of different viruses that infect all sorts of plants. Plant viruses don’t get spread in quite the same way as human ones-most plant viruses get carried from plant to plant by insects, much like some human viruses are transmitted by mosquitoes.

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