The origin of RNA interference (RNAi), the cell sentinel system widely shared among
eukaryotes that recognizes RNAs and specifically degrades or prevents their translation in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

DNA methylation is a dynamic and reversible type of epigenetic mark that contributes to
cellular physiology by affecting transcription activity, transposon mobility and genome …

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 …

Viroids are infectious non-coding RNAs that infect plants. During infection, viroid RNAs are
targeted by Dicer-like proteins, generating viroid-derived small RNAs (vd-sRNAs) that can …

It is well known that viroids promote significant alterations at diverse host regulatory levels.
However the mechanisms by which these tiny RNAs subvert endogenous regulatory …

Viroids are small circular RNAs infecting a wide range of plants. They do not code for any
protein or peptide and therefore rely on their structure for their biological cycle. Observed …