STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State biological sciences faculty member is using a National Institutes of Health grant to explore virus amplification and replication in plants, studying a specific ...

A viroid that several scientists call "the biggest concern for cannabis and hop growers worldwide," is in Michigan. Called hop latent viroid (HLVd), the viroid, a tiny infectious particle smaller than ...

Theodor O. Diener, a Swiss-born scientist whose investigation more than half a century ago of shriveled, stunted potatoes yielded the discovery of the tiniest known agent of infectious disease, a ...

Viroids are the smallest known plant pathogens, comprising single-stranded, circular RNAs of a few hundred nucleotides and lacking any protein-coding capacity. They are classified into two families ...

A team of researchers has developed a computational pipeline to identify and better understand viroids and viroid-like covalently closed circular RNAs (cccRNAs, also referred to as, simply, circular ...

Hop latent viroid (HLVd) is one of the most devastating things ever to hit cannabis, with researchers estimating it could be costing the industry up to $4 billion per year in financial loss. But are ...

Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) has a circular non-coding RNA genome of 359 nucleotides that replicates and spreads systemically in host plants. Consequently, all functions needed to establish a ...

Viroids are closed circles of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that replicate at a very low level using host cell enzymes, since they do not usually encode proteins. The existence of over ten thousand viroids, ...

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