Advances in viroid-host interactions

B Navarro, R Flores, F Di Serio - Annual Review of Virology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Viroids are small, single-stranded, circular RNAs infecting plants. Composed of only a few
hundred nucleotides and being unable to code for proteins, viroids represent the lowest …

The role of plant transcription factors in the fight against plant viruses

KK Viswanath, SY Kuo, CW Tu, YH Hsu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plants are vulnerable to the challenges of unstable environments and pathogen infections
due to their immobility. Among various stress conditions, viral infection is a major threat that …

NAC transcription factors as positive or negative regulators during ongoing battle between pathogens and our food crops

Z Bian, H Gao, C Wang - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC2) family of proteins is one of the largest plant-specific
transcription factor (TF) families and its members play varied roles in plant growth …

Current overview on viroid–host interactions

CR Adkar‐Purushothama… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

New insights into hop latent viroid detection, infectivity, host range, and transmission

OO Atallah, SM Yassin, J Verchot - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hop latent viroid (HLVd), a subviral pathogen from the family Pospiviroidae, is a major threat
to the global cannabis industry and is the causative agent for “dudding disease”. Infected …

[HTML][HTML] Role of RNA silencing in plant-viroid interactions and in viroid pathogenesis

F Di Serio, RA Owens, B Navarro, P Serra… - Virus research, 2023 - Elsevier
Viroids are small, single-stranded, non-protein coding and circular RNAs able to infect host
plants in the absence of any helper virus. They may elicit symptoms in their hosts, but the …

Viroid pathogenesis: A critical appraisal of the role of RNA silencing in triggering the initial molecular lesion

R Flores, B Navarro, S Delgado, P Serra… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Transmission of potato spindle tuber viroid between Phytophthora infestans and host plants

OS Afanasenko, AV Khiutti, NV Mironenko… - Vavilov Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) is a naked, circular, single-stranded RNA (356–363
nucleotides in length) which lacks any protein-coding sequences. It is an economically …

Revisiting the non-coding nature of pospiviroids

K Katsarou, CR Adkar-Purushothama, E Tassios… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Viroids are small, circular, highly structured pathogens that infect a broad range of plants,
causing economic losses. Since their discovery in the 1970s, they have been considered as …

Progress in 50 years of viroid research—Molecular structure, pathogenicity, and host adaptation

T Sano - Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Viroids are non-encapsidated, single-stranded, circular RNAs consisting of 246–434
nucleotides. Despite their non-protein-encoding RNA nature, viroids replicate autonomously …