The papaya industry can be fully revived with the introduction of a new resistant gene to fight the papaya ringspot virus (PRSV), a disease which ravaged papaya-growing areas in Johor in 1991. »The virus completely wiped out the industry in Johor but the new gene has proven to be able to combat the disease,« said Dr Vilasini Pillai (picture), the head researcher for the PRSV-resistant eksotika papay