Viral Scouts Ready to Raid Soybean Fields

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A group of Ohio State University and U.S. Agricultural Research Service scientists may soon become known as the SWAT team of the bug world.

But you won't see members of the Viral Rapid Response Team tramping in soybean fields armed with gigantic fly swatters. Expect instead for them to swarm through soybean fields with viral detection kits.

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Viral Scouts Ready to Raid Soybean Fields

The team has been in force since the 1960s. Their target these days is any virus spread by soybean aphids. The insects arrived in the United States about five years ago a...

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