DI SERIO, F; Flores Pedauye, Ricardo; Verhoeven, J. Th. J.; Li, S-F.; Pallás Benet, Vicente; Randles, J. W.; Sano, T.; Vidalakis, G.; Owens, R. A.(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-12)
Viroids are the smallest autonomous infectious nucleic acids known so far. With a small circular RNA genome of about 250-400 nt, which apparently does not code for any protein, viroids replicate and move systemically in ...
Minoia, Sofia; Navarro, B.; Covelli, L.; Barone, M.; Garcia-Becedas, M. T.; Ragozzino, A.; Alioto, D.; Flores Pedauye, Ricardo; DI SERIO, F(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-03)
Cherry trees from Spain affected by cherry leaf scorch (CLS), a fungal disease proposed to be caused by Apiognomonia erythrostoma, show symptoms (translucent-chlorotic leaf spots evolving into rusty areas) very similar to ...
[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 ...