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Strategies for antiviral resistance in transgenic plants.

Identification of a new Apscaviroid from Japanese persimmon.

Virp1 is a host protein with a major role in Potato spindle tuber viroid infection in Nicotiana plants.

Experimental transmission of pospiviroid populations to weed species characteristic of potato and hop fields.

Processing of nuclear viroids in vivo: an interplay between RNA conformations.

A viroid RNA with a specific structural motif inhibits chloroplast development.

Characterization of small RNAs derived from Citrus exocortis viroid (CEVd) in infected tomato plants.

A peptide derived from a single-modified viroid-RNA can be used as an in vivo nucleolar marker.

Highly sensitive fluorescent-labeled probes and glass slide hybridization for the detection of plant RNA viruses and a viroid.

Differential display analysis of gene expression in Etrog citron leaves infected by Citrus viroid III.

Processing of RNAs of the family Avsunviroidae in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts.

Molecular features of new Peach Latent Mosaic Viroid variants suggest that recombination may have contributed to the evolution of this infectious RNA

A structured viroid RNA serves as a substrate for dicer-like cleavage to produce biologically active small RNAs but is resistant to RNA-induced silencing complex-mediated degradation.

Evidence for the existence of the loop E motif of Potato spindle tuber viroid in vivo.

Existence in vivo of the loop E motif in potato spindle tuber viroid RNA.

Molecular characterization of CEVd strains that induce different phenotypes in Gynura aurantiaca: structure-pathogenicity relationships.

Viroid: a useful model for studying the basic principles of infection and RNA biology.

Accumulation of viroid-specific small RNAs and increase in nucleolytic activities linked to viroid-caused pathogenesis.

Construction of a multiprobe for the simultaneous detection of viroids infecting citrus trees.

The fittest versus the flattest: experimental confirmation of the quasispecies effect with subviral pathogens.