Peach latent mosaic viroid (PLMVd) can adopt hammerhead structures in both polarity strands. In the course of a study on the variability of this viroid a natural sequence variant has been characterized in which the hammerhead structure of the plus polarity strand has the sequence CCGA instead of the conserved uridine turn motif CUGA present in the catalytic pocket of all natural hammerhead stru...

Viroids are plant-pathogenic molecules made up of single-stranded circular non-coding RNAs. How replicating viroids interfere with host silencing remains largely unknown. In this study, we investigated the effects of a nuclear-replicating Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) on interference with plant RNA silencing. Using transient induction of silencing in GFP transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana p...

RNA motifs comprising nucleotides that interact through non-Watson-Crick base pairing play critical roles in RNA functions, often by serving as the sites for RNA-RNA, RNA-protein, or RNA small ligand interactions. The structures of viral and viroid RNA motifs are studied commonly by in vitro, computational, and mutagenesis approaches. Demonstration of the in vivo existence of a motif will help ...

Head of Corporate Implementation and Consultancy Unit, Malaysian Palm Oil Board. 6, Persiaran Institusi, Bandar Baru Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. Tel: 03-8769 4574 Fax: 03-8926 1337 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.mpob.gov.my he oil palm is an important perennial oil crop for a number of countries in the tropics. A recent finding reported the presence of Coconut cadang-cadang v...

This document provides the conclusions of pest survey card that was prepared in context EFSA mandate on plant surveillance (M-2020-0114) at request European Commission. The full for coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd) is published and available online Plant Pest Survey Cards Gallery following link will be updated whenever new information becomes available: https://efsa.europa.eu/plants/planthe...

hop stunt viroid (hsvd) isolates have been reported as the causal agent of citrus cachexia in mazandaran province and recently shown to be associated with yellow corky vein disease of sweet orange and split bark disorder of sweet lime in the fars province, iran. in the present work isolation and partial characterization of viroids from citrus trees affected by gummy stem blight is reported from...

Figure 1 Figure 2 Citrus fruits are traditional agricultural products in Egypt. Citrus volkameriana is the best rootstock for growing citrus in Egypt’s desert areas (newly reclaimed land). It is far superior to other rootstocks used in Egypt in its resistance to Citrus tristeza virus as well as its tolerance to drought. Constraints to fruit production are mainly related to tree decline caused b...

At present isolates of Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) are divided into five groups: three major groups (plum-type, hop-type and citrus-type) each containing isolates from only a limited number of isolation hosts and two minor groups that were presumed to derive from recombination events between members of the main groups. In this work we present the characterization of 16 new sequence variants of HSVd...

SEMANCIK, J. S., L. K. GRILL, and E. L. CIVEROLO. 1978. Accumulation of viroid RNA in tumor cells after double infection by Agrobacterium tumefaciens and citrus exocortis viroid. Phytopathology 68: 1288-1292. The presence of citrus exocortis viroid (CEV) in tumors RNase-resistant ' I-CEV following molecular hybridization induced by A. tumefaciens in CEV-infected tomato has been of nucleic acid ...