This shit drives me absolutely insane. The end game, being sterilize everything, use only specific breeders or cuts, is setting the stage for superviruses. Wait until they pump this shit up and spread it to other people. Since when in history have these plants lived in sterile environments? Does this virus mutate and adapt like others? So what exactly does this pcr test tell us, that we have the virus in parts, but why not the other areas? Why not be specific about virus's concentration in the meristems and why you can clone off one part and not another. The PCR test depending on cycles ran, is still just a best guess sequence game. Its not like its a clear picture through an electron microscope. They are basing the sequences off of what data we have available, and not all the data there is. Its like shooting plasma into a cell and reading whats left over. Sure you know what it consumed, but when you guess the order in the strand, you cannot compute for mutations, if that were the case, we would have cures and not mutations.
Id say perhaps there is a curve, perhaps were pushing the plants to hard. Perhaps viruses lay dormant in bacterial hosts everywhere. Perhaps this era of Biotech boom we are in is doing more harm than good. Id like to say I dont think we are creating these issues, but looking at our cures for these issues, it seems more likely we had to have caused them.
Just another reason why I like live environments where we control the microbes vs sterile environments where we destroy them, just like us, they too can fight and adapt.
