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adj- Capable of being affected or contaminated.

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  • Stages A and B are generally susceptible to a high number of fungal pathogens, stage C is of intermediate resistance and stage D is not infectible by biotrophic leaf...
  • When Rice and his colleagues engineered mouse and human cell lines to express all four proteins, they showed that each cell line became infectible with the virus.
  • Since mice and humans each have a species-specific version of the four factors, the group used hamster cells to see which combination of factors did the best job at making the...
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