This is the first article in a series on viroids. Viruses, bacteria, and fungi; most people will have heard of these three major types of disease-causing microbes. Some will also have heard about ...

This is the second article in a series on viroids. The first, which can be read here, provided an overview of what viroids are and how they replicate. Whether you’re a carnivore, omnivore, or a ...

Viroids are unique systems for the study of RNA structure, function and evolution. They are the minimal RNA replicons characterized so far their genome is ten-fold smaller than that the smallest known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of pink cells lining the human gut. Scientists have uncovered a never-before-seen class of virus-like entities hiding ...

During 1970 and 1971, I discovered that a devastating disease of potato plants is not caused by a virus, as had been assumed, but by a new type of subviral pathogen, the viroid. Viroids are so small — ...

A team of researchers has developed a computational pipeline to identify and better understand viroids and viroid-like covalently closed circular RNAs (cccRNAs, also referred to as, simply, circular ...

Hop latent viroid (HLVd) has emerged as a major challenge for cannabis cultivation and plant pathology research. A member of the viroid family, HLVd is one of the smallest known infectious agents, ...

While humans battle COVID, cannabis plants face an equally devastating threat: Hop latent viroid (HLVd), a viroid that occurs worldwide in hops, but in recent years jumped to cannabis, destroying THC ...