TMV
Americanabbreviation
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With the structure of TMV resolved, Franklin set out to study other plant viruses blighting important agricultural crops, including the potato, turnip, tomato and pea.
From Nature • Jul. 20, 2020
Knowledge of the virus’s structure allowed other scientists to forge ahead in the early days of molecular biology and use TMV as a model to help break the genetic code.
From Nature • Jul. 20, 2020
A signature sentence “Excitedly, I pilfered Bernal and Fankuchen’s paper from the Philosophical Library and brought it up to the lab so that Francis could inspect the TMV X-ray picture.”
From The Guardian • May 9, 2016
TMV also is easy to work with in the lab, being a highly infectious agricultural pest that attacks a wide variety of plant species.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2013
Experiments of the German Gerhard Schramm, first published in 1944, reported that TMV particles in mild alkali fell apart into free RNA and a large number of similar, if not identical, protein molecules.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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