tulip breaking virus
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Tulip Mania: How a Plant Virus Fueled a Speculative Frenzy
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…phenomenon to a virus (the Tulip Breaking Virus), but the streaked flowers quickly became a preoccupation for "gentlemen botanists" and aristocrats in the Netherlands. In 1596 and again in 1598, broken tulips were stolen from Clusius’s garden, and the genetically variable seeds of those purloined flowers became the foundation for…
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