Without pork one becomes thinner; without bamboo one becomes vulgar, "wrote the poet Su Dongpo, drawing an association between bamboo and pigs. But in Hsu and Lin's research on the bamboo mosaic virus, there's an unexpected connection between them: the long and winding scientific road they have traveled together in their research of BaMV has brought hope for treating both bamboo and pigs.
蘇東坡詩句中「竹」與「豬」的聯想，在徐堯煇與林納生的「竹嵌紋」世界裡，卻意外發生交集，他們以竹嵌紋病毒為主軸，從治「竹」到治「豬」，曲折漫長的科學路，令人好奇。