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Viroids are small single-stranded, circular RNAs that are infectious pathogens. Unlike viruses, they have no protein coating. All known viroids are inhabitants of angiosperms (flowering plants), and most cause diseases, whose respective economic importance to humans varies widely. A 2023 metatranscriptomics study suggests that viroids and viroid-like elements can be found in all domains of life.
OverviewAI-generated
Viroids are a taxon classified under the name "Viroids." They are associated with a specific category on the Wikimedia Commons platform. The subject is referenced by 206 other encyclopedia articles.
In the United States, one record and one media item related to viroids are held by the institution CUP. Additionally, there are 1940 entries associated with the query "viroid" in the PubMed database.
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Research
1,940 papers- Modes of Viroid Transmission.Cells · 2022
- Cellular roadmaps of viroid infection.Trends in microbiology · 2023
- Hop Latent Viroid: A Hidden Threat to the Cannabis Industry.Viruses · 2023
- RNAi tools for controlling viroid diseases.Virus research · 2022
- Current overview on viroid-host interactions.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA · 2020
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Transmission and replication
- RNA silencing
- Viroid-like elements
- Viroid-like satellite RNAs
- Ambiviruses
- Retroviroids
- Obelisks
- RNA world hypothesis
- Control
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
Viroids are small single-stranded, circular RNAs that are infectious pathogens. Unlike viruses, they have no protein coating. All known viroids are inhabitants of angiosperms (flowering plants), and most cause diseases, whose respective economic importance to humans varies widely. A 2023 metatranscriptomics study suggests that viroids and viroid-like elements can be found in all domains of life.
The first discoveries of viroids in the 1970s triggered the historically third major extension of the biosphere—to include smaller entities—after the discoveries in 1675 by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (of the "subvisible" protozoa) and in 1892–1898 by Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky and Martinus Beijerinck (of the "submicroscopic" viruses). The unique properties of viroids have been recognized by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, in creating a new order of subviral agents.
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