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(biology, agriculture) Virus-carrying, especially of insects which infest agricultural crops..
Circumstantial evidence suggests that heavy infestation by viruliferous aphids can overcome the highest degree of host plant resistance.
Viruliferous curl mites increase during summer on volunteer wheat, and are carried by air currents into the new wheat crop.
Maize streak virus, an endemic pathogen of native African grasses, was then carried to maize plants by viruliferous leafhoppers.
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Viruliferous means (biology, agriculture) Virus-carrying, especially of insects which infest agricultural crops..
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Circumstantial evidence suggests that heavy infestation by viruliferous aphids can overcome the highest degree of host plant resistance.
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