The fructification of a city-based scientist’s decade-long research is sure to counterpoint the fruit of many a farmer’s labour, slightly literally – Vasanth Kumar Thimakapura’s plant-based eco-friendly formula is being touted because the preventive remedy against the much-dreaded Papaya Ring Spot Virus (PRV), a bane for ryots dependent at the horticulture crop for his or her fortunes.
