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Who is the one who first discovered the tobacco mosaic virus?
Wendell Stanley
Dimitri ivanovski
Martinus Beijenrick
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Dimitri Ivanovski -see below.
In 1883 Adolf Mayer first described the disease that could be transferred between plants, similar to bacterial infections. However, in 1889, Martinus Beijerinck showed that a filtered, bacteria-free culture medium still contained the infectious agent. Dimitri Ivanovski gave the first concrete evidence for its existence in 1892.