By developing BaMV and its satellite nucleic acids into a "two-way vector," one can, for example, destroy one BaMV gene and then use the satellite nucleic acids to introduce a good gene into it, thus facilitating further study of the functioning of the BaMV nucleic acid sequence; this technique was used to understand the core initializing subsequence of the subgenome RNA.
林納生指出，將竹嵌紋病毒與衛星核酸發展為「雙向載體」，破壞一個竹嵌紋病毒的基因，再用衛星核酸供給一個好的基因進去，就能進一步探究竹嵌紋病毒核酸序列的功能，如瞭解次基因體 RNA 的核心啟動子序列等。