Theodor Otto Diener, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetTheodor Otto Diener
American phytopathologist
Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1921
Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland
Profession: university teacher, botanist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Theodor Otto Diener
- Theodor Otto Diener (born February 28, 1921) is the Swiss-American plant pathologist who, in 1971, discovered that the causative agent of the potato spindle tuber disease is not a virus, but a novel agent, which consists solely of a short strand of single-stranded RNA without a protein capsid, eighty times smaller than the smallest viruses.
- He proposed to name it and similar agents to be discovered viroids. Viroids displace viruses as the smallest infectious agents known.
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