Karl Maramorosch (1915 to 2016) was an Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist and plant pathologist. He demonstrated that some plant disease agents could multiply inside the insects that transmit them as well as inside plants, using microinjection techniques he adapted from earlier work on lice, and beginning in 1956 he developed methods for culturing insect cells that made it possible to study viruses in the laboratory, work that led to the widely used Mitsuhashi-Maramorosch insect culture medium. He received the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 1980 and, over a sixty-year career, authored or co-authored more than 800 scientific papers.
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Defining ContributionPioneered the study of plant pathogen transmission by insect vectors, providing the first evidence that certain plant viruses and phytoplasmas multiply within their insect vectors as well as in host plants, and helped found the field of invertebrate cell culture used in virus research. 1 Sources
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Karl Maramorosch (January 16, 1915, May 9, 2016) was an Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist, and plant pathologist.
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Karl Maramorosch (January 16, 1915, May 9, 2016) was an Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist, and plant pathologist.
Mechanical transmission of viruses and phytoplasmas to insect vectors section
This permitted him to obtain the first evidence that certain plant pathogens multiply not only in plants, but also in specific invertebrate animal vectors.
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