But Professor Yeh Shyi-dong of National Chung Hsing University found a way to combat the virus in 1993. He developed a transgenic papaya resistant to the virus by expressing a copy of a viral coat protein in the plant. When the virus is transmitted to a genetically modified papaya plant by aphids, it is broken down and destroyed.
事實上，中興大學教授葉錫東早在 1993 年就找到解決方法，他將輪點病毒的鞘蛋白基因送進木瓜細胞內，引發其防禦能力，其後當蚜蟲叮咬木瓜、送進病毒時，病毒的遺傳分子就會被分解破壞。