MMMavocado wrote:

This quote was made, in a previous posting he

"The following comments are an addendum to the Virus article written by Jeri
Jennings, posted by Tom Liggett in a discussion group as a follow-up to said article:
U.C. Davis FPMS has LONG (!!!!!) reported that "virus-free" (read that heat
treated/indexed) plants that were grown in insect-segregated greenhouses saw the spontaneous
re-occurrence of virus after five years. In my view, there is NO way to remove Mosaic (and
mayhaps other) virus(es) from plants once they re infected. "

I should point out that after that statement was made, I had a flood of emails
about it, so I called up the folks at FPMS. Talked to several of them,
including Mike Cunningham, head of their rose program. I was assured,
absolutely, that no knowledgeable FPMS employee had ever said any such thing,
and that it was certainly not true, in their experience.

So, either the quote is a direct lie, or (more probably) a gross
misunderstanding of some other statement, enlarged through several generations
of gossip.

Malcolm Manners

Thanks for letting us know. Do you know anything about the "study" Henry said
Paul said Anne said (!) UCD did that Henry thinks is evidence that RMV can
spread in the garden?