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Viroids and Viroid-Host Interactions

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Flores, Ricardo, Hernández, Carmen, Alba, A. Emilio Martínez de, Daròs, José-Antonio, Serio, Francesco Di·2005·Annual Review of Phytopathology

Abstract

Although they induce symptoms in plants similar to those accompanying virus infections, viroids have unique structural, functional, and evolutionary characteristics. They are composed of a small, nonprotein-coding, single-stranded, circular RNA, with autonomous replication. Viroid species are clustered into the families Pospiviroidae and Avsunviroidae, whose members replicate (and accumulate) in the nucleus and chloroplast, respectively. Viroids replicate in three steps through an RNA-based rolling-circle mechanism: synthesis of longer-than-unit strands catalyzed by host RNA polymerases; processing to unit-length, which in the family Avsunviroidae is mediated by hammerhead ribozymes; and circularization. Within the initially infected cells, viroid RNA must move to its replication organelle, with the resulting progeny then invading adjacent cells through plasmodesmata and reaching distal parts via the vasculature. To carry out these movements, viroids must interact with host factors. The mature viroid RNA could be the primary pathogenic effector or, alternatively, viroids could exert their pathogenic effects via RNA silencing.

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Authors
Flores, R., Hernández, C., Alba, A. E. M. D., Daròs, J.-A., & Serio, F. D.
Venue
Annual Review of Phytopathology
Published
2005-09-01
Volume
43
Issue
1
Pages
117-139
ISSN
  • 0066-4286 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2107
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W2096249174
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462
References
73
FWCI
2.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Flores, R., Hernández, C., Alba, A. E. M. D., Daròs, J.-A., & Serio, F. D. (2005). Viroids and Viroid-Host Interactions. Annual Review of Phytopathology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.phyto.43.040204.140243

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