Pearson eText for Laboratory Experiments in Microbiology -- Instant Access (Pearson+)
Pearson eText for Laboratory Experiments in Microbiology -- Instant Access (Pearson+)
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To analyze:

The effect of damage to the control leaf.

Introduction:

Infectious diseases or infections are caused by pathogens like fungi, parasites, viruses or bacteria that can affect an organism indirectly or directly. Symptoms of disease depend on the type of organism responsible for causing the infection. Viral particles generally enter the plant host through any abrasions on the stem or leaves of the plant.

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A viral infection is either localized or systemic depending on if it is limited to the affected area only or spreads throughout the body of the host, respectively.

While studying the effect of viral infections on plants, some leaves are kept as control (not affected) to compare the changes in the virally infected leaves.

If control leaves are damaged initially, the virus may also enter the control leaves and thus can affect it. This results in loss of control of the experiment and the changes due to viral infection cannot be studied.

Conclusion

If the control leaf was damaged, the viral particle may also infect the control leaf and consequently, the effect of a viral infection cannot be compared with uninfected control.

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