Stuttgart was the first university where the tobacco mosaic virus could establish itself. Here Mundry expanded the fundamental ideas of the work he had conducted in Tübingen in various directions. In addition to investigating the structure and function of viruses – textbook stuff today – he also focussed on questions with a practical slant:
What effect does a virus have on a plant's defence mechanisms? Which of the virus's genes influence this?
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