Rod-Shaped Particles in Tobacco Mosaic Virus Demonstrated by Stream Double Refraction

6 January 1933

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 77 (1984) , 26-27
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.77.1984.26

Abstract

By use of polarized light in an apparatus described, the authors have demonstrated the occurrence of stream double refraction in juice of mosaic tobacco plants, its absence in the juice of healthy plants and its similarity to the stream double refraction shown by sols containing rod-shaped particles, indicating that the virus of tobacco mosaic, or some substance regularly associated with it, is composed of rod-shaped particles.