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Natural Cross-Kingdom Spread of Apple Scar Skin Viroid from Apple Trees to Fungi

Mengyuan Tian,
Shuang Wei,
Ruiling Bian,
Jingxian Luo,
Haris Ahmed Khan,
Huanhuan Tai,
Hideki Kondo,
Ahmed Hadidi,
Ida Bagus Andika and
Liying Sun

Cells2022, 11(22), 3686;https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11223686

20 November 2022

Viroids are the smallest known infectious agents that are thought to only infect plants. Here, we reveal that several species of plant pathogenic fungi that were isolated from apple trees infected with apple scar skin viroid (ASSVd) carried ASSVd nat...

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Small Heat Shock Protein (sHsp22.98) from Trialeurodes vaporariorum Plays Important Role in Apple Scar Skin Viroid Transmission

Savita Chaudhary,
Vijayanandraj Selvaraj,
Preshika Awasthi,
Swati Bhuria,
Rituraj Purohit,
Surender Kumar and
Vipin Hallan

Viruses2023, 15(10), 2069;https://doi.org/10.3390/v15102069

9 October 2023

Trialeurodes vaporariorum, commonly known as the greenhouse whitefly, severely infests important crops and serves as a vector for apple scar skin viroid (ASSVd). This vector-mediated transmission may cause the spread of infection to other herbaceous...

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Viroid Diseases in Pome and Stone Fruit Trees and Koch’s Postulates: A Critical Assessment

Francesco Di Serio,
Silvia Ambrós,
Teruo Sano,
Ricardo Flores and
Beatriz Navarro

Viruses2018, 10(11), 612;https://doi.org/10.3390/v10110612

7 November 2018

Composed of a naked circular non-protein-coding genomic RNA, counting only a few hundred nucleotides, viroids—the smallest infectious agents known so far—are able to replicate and move systemically in herbaceous and woody host plants, whi...

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Comprehensive Virome Profiling of Apple Mosaic Disease-Affected Trees in Iran Using RT-PCR and Next-Generation Sequencing

Anahita Hamedi,
Farshad Rakhshandehroo,
Mohammad Reza Safarnejad,
Gholamreza Salehi Jouzani,
Amani Ben Slimen and
Toufic Elbeaino

Viruses2025, 17(7), 979;https://doi.org/10.3390/v17070979

13 July 2025

Apples (Malus domestica), one of Iran’s oldest cultivated fruit crops, hold considerable economic importance. In this study, 170 apple leaf samples representing various commercial cultivars were collected across the country. RT-PCR screening ta...

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