The cannabis and hop industries are facing a devastating threat that could cost billions of dollars in losses. Hop latent viroid (HpLVd) is spreading rapidly, posing a serious challenge to growers ...

A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and collaborating academic research institutions have developed a computational pipeline to identify and better understand viroids and ...

Hop latent viroid (HLVd) has emerged as a major challenge for cannabis cultivation and plant pathology research. A member of the viroid family, HLVd is one of the smallest known infectious agents, ...

What's a viroid like you doing in a ribosome like this? This is the question set out by a team from the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP, in Spanish), a joint center of the ...

Legal home cultivation created millions of new growers, but the supply chain behind them lagged for years. Lab testing, plant guarantees, and a viroid crisis are changing that.

Viroids are closed circles of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that replicate at a very low level using host cell enzymes, since they do not usually encode proteins. The existence of over ten thousand viroids, ...

Hop latent viroid (HLVd) is one of the most devastating things ever to hit cannabis, with researchers estimating it could be costing the industry up to $4 billion per year in financial loss. But are ...

Viroids are the smallest known plant pathogens, comprising single-stranded, circular RNAs of a few hundred nucleotides and lacking any protein-coding capacity. They are classified into two families ...

Theodor O. Diener, a Swiss-born scientist whose investigation more than half a century ago of shriveled, stunted potatoes yielded the discovery of the tiniest known agent of infectious disease, a ...

A team of researchers has developed a computational pipeline to identify and better understand viroids and viroid-like covalently closed circular RNAs (cccRNAs, also referred to as, simply, circular ...