Navarro, B; Gisel, A; Rodio, Maria Elena; Delgado Villar, Sonia Guadalupe; Flores Pedauye, Ricardo; Di Serio, Francesco(Wiley, 2012-06)
[EN] How viroids, tiny non-protein-coding RNAs (250–400 nt), incite disease is unclear. One hypothesis is that
viroid-derived small RNAs (vd-sRNAs; 21–24 nt) resulting from the host defensive response, via RNA silencing,
may ...
Minoia, Sofia; Navarro, B; Delgado Villar, Sonia Guadalupe; Di Serio, Francesco; Flores Pedauye, Ricardo(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-02-27)
[EN] While biogenesis of viroid RNAs is well-known, how they decay is restricted to data involving host RNA silencing. Here we report an alternative degradation pathway operating on potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd), the ...
[EN] The discovery of viroids about 45 years ago heralded a revolution in Biology: small RNAs comprising around 350 nt were found to be able to replicate autonomously and to incite diseases in certain plants without encoding ...
[EN] Despite being composed by a single-stranded, circular, non-protein-coding RNA of just 246-401 nucleotides (nt), viroids can incite in their host plants symptoms similar to those caused by DNA and RNA viruses, which ...