Dynamics and function of DNA methylation in plants

H Zhang, Z Lang, JK Zhu - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic modification that is important for gene regulation
and genome stability. Aberrant patterns of DNA methylation can lead to plant developmental …

Epigenome plasticity in plants

JPB Lloyd, R Lister - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Plant intra-individual and inter-individual variation can be determined by the epigenome, a
set of covalent modifications of DNA and chromatin that can alter genome structure and …

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 …

Recent advances in biosensors for in vitro detection and in vivo imaging of DNA methylation

Q Zhang, Y Wu, Q Xu, F Ma, C Zhang - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2021 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is the predominant epigenetic modification that participates in many
fundamental cellular processes through posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression …

The role of gammaherpesviruses in cancer pathogenesis

HC Jha, S Banerjee, ES Robertson - Pathogens, 2016 - mdpi.com
Worldwide, one fifth of cancers in the population are associated with viral infections. Among
them, gammaherpesvirus, specifically HHV4 (EBV) and HHV8 (KSHV), are two oncogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular biology of viroid–host interactions and disease control strategies

N Kovalskaya, RW Hammond - Plant Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Viroids are single-stranded, covalently closed, circular, highly structured noncoding RNAs
that cause disease in several economically important crop plants. They replicate …

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 …

Viroids, the simplest RNA replicons: How they manipulate their hosts for being propagated and how their hosts react for containing the infection

R Flores, S Minoia, A Carbonell, A Gisel, S Delgado… - Virus Research, 2015 - Elsevier
The discovery of viroids about 45 years ago heralded a revolution in Biology: small RNAs
comprising around 350 nt were found to be able to replicate autonomously—and to incite …

Specific Argonautes Selectively Bind Small RNAs Derived from Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid and Attenuate Viroid Accumulation In Vivo

S Minoia, A Carbonell, F Di Serio, A Gisel… - Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The identification of viroid-derived small RNAs (vd-sRNAs) of 21 to 24 nucleotides (nt) in
plants infected by viroids (infectious non-protein-coding RNAs of just 250 to 400 nt) supports …

[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 …