title: Finding our roots and celebrating our shoots: Plant virology in Virology, 1955-1964.
abstract: To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Virology a survey is made of the plant viruses, virologists and their institutions, and tools and technology described in the first decade of plant virus publications in Virology. This was a period when plant viruses increasingly became tools of discovery as epistemic objects and plant virology became a discipline discrete from plant pathology and other life sciences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, 2132 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Electronic address: kbgs@tamu.edu.
authors.forename: Karen-Beth G
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Scholthof
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D061066:Plant Pathology / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; Electron microscopy; Formative years of plant virology; Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; Sucrose density gradient centrifugation; Tobacco mosaic virus; Turnip yellow mosaic virus; Virus Laboratory University of California-Berkeley