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Short answer is no, not really. Here is a paper on the topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PM
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Short answer is no, not really. Here is a paper on the topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356271/
Under laboratory conditions you can regrow a whole plant from an extremely small sample, even down to an individual cell. This is very handy with potatoes for example. Potatoes are notorious for acquiring many different viruses that eventually make a clone line uneconomical or just kill the whole variety altogether. With lab work it is possible to cleanse a potato cell of the virus then propagate many new, clean plants.