Chris Slade wrote:

> The Tacman machine to which she has
> access was devised and built for playing with plant viruses and it really
needs
> several thousand samples to make it worth stoking the boilers and raising
steam.
>  This then encourages the genie in the machine to whizz through the
samples
> in a split second and enunciate in sonorous tones the names and family of
the
> various viruses.

I understand from Ruth that they are currently only set up to identify black
queen cell virus, sacbrood virus and Kashmir bee virus.  Once the
methodology has been tested they will be able to re-test the samples for
other viruses.

Peter Edwards
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www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/

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