Virus zaps pests, speeds medical research. From: Agricultural Research | Date: December 1, 1996| Author: Wood, Marcia | COPYRIGHT 1996 U.S. Government Printing Office. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Entomologist Patrick V. Vail of the Agricultural Research Service's Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory has discovered a virus that controls crop-eating caterpillars. Known as the Autographa californica multiply embedded nucleopolyhedrosis or AcMNPV, the baculovirus was first observed in 1967 in alfalfa looper caterpillar. American Cyanamid scientists have produced an upgraded strain of the virus to accelerate its normal rate of kill. Caterpillars containing this genetically engineered vi...

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