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Hyderabad, May 13 (IANS) Researchers at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have revealed a key defence system in plants to fight viruses. Plants are known to use liquid-like, sticky protein droplets to trap and disable invading viruses. The study, led by Dr Mandar V. Deshmukh and published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), maps out the molecular-level mechanism for this process.Many viruses contain double-stranded RNA as their genetic material. Plants…