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How can biotechnology used in plants of virus resistance ?

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Many plants are affected by virus attack resulting in serious loss in yield and even death
(ii) Biotechnological intervention is used to introduce viral resistant genes into the host plant so hat they can resist the attack by virus .
(iii) This is by introducing genes that produce resistant enzymes which can deactivate viral DNA .
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