Mystery solved: How do tips of plants stay virus-free?

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Oct-09 Fri 13:28
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Plants are able to keep growing indefinitely because they have tissues made of meristems—plant stem cells—which have the unique ability to transform themselves into the various specialized cells that make up the plant, dividing whenever appropriate and producing new cells of whatever type as needed.…

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