The large genetic and structural divergences between plants and fungi may hinder the
transmission of viruses between these two kingdoms to some extent. However, recent …

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 …

Public databases contain a planetary collection of nucleic acid sequences, but their
systematic exploration has been inhibited by a lack of efficient methods for searching this …

Earth's life may have originated as self-replicating RNA, and it has been argued that RNA
viruses and viroid-like elements are remnants of such pre-cellular RNA world. RNA viruses …

Genetically Modified Organism-Free RNA Interference: Exogenous Application of RNA Molecules
in Plants1 [OPEN] | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement …

Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are becoming routinely employed in
different fields of virus research. Different sequencing platforms and sample preparation …

INTRODUCTION Cells use a variety of mechanisms to prevent the propagation of parasitic
information. A family of adaptive immune systems associated with CRISPRs in prokaryotes …

Small endonucleolytic ribozymes promote the self-cleavage of their own phosphodiester
backbone at a specific linkage. The structures of and the reactions catalysed by members of …

RNA-catalyzed RNA replication is widely considered a key step in the emergence of life's
first genetic system. However, RNA replication can be impeded by the extraordinary stability …

To date, viroids have been found to naturally infect only plants, resulting in substantial
losses for some crops. Whether viroids or viroid‐like RNAs naturally infect non‐plant hosts …