This article focuses on the molecular and hormonal mechanisms underlying the control of
fleshy fruit ripening and quality. Recent research on tomato shows that ethylene, acting …

Viroids are one of the most enigmatic highly structured, circular, single‐stranded RNA
phytopathogens. Although they are not known to code for any peptide, viroids induce visible …

Virus-derived siRNAs (vsiRNAs) generated by the host RNA silencing mechanism are
effectors of plant's defense response and act by targeting the viral RNA and DNA in post …

Viroids are circular RNAs of minimal complexity compelled to subvert plant‐regulatory
networks to accomplish their infectious process. Studies focused on the response to viroid …

The initial molecular lesions through which viroids, satellite RNAs and viruses trigger signal
cascades resulting in plant diseases are hotly debated. Since viroids are circular non …

RNA silencing refers to a conserved eukaryotic process and is regarded as one of the most
important processes in plants, with the ability to regulate gene expression both …

Viroids are tiny single-stranded circular RNA pathogens that infect plants. Viroids do not
encode any proteins, yet cause an assortment of symptoms. The following review describes …

Simple Summary Viroids are the smallest infectious agents currently known. Despite
consisting of a relatively small RNA molecule that does not code for any protein, viroids …

Understanding how viruses and subviral agents initiate disease is central to plant pathology.
Whether RNA silencing mediates the primary lesion triggered by viroids (small non-protein …

Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV), is one of the most devastating cultivated tomato viruses,
seriously threatened the growth of crops worldwide. As the vector of ToCV, the whitefly …