Viroids and viroid-host interactions

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2005, Pages 117-139

  Flores, Ricardo ^a   Hernández, Carmen ^a   Martínez De Alba, A Emilio ^a   Daròs, José Antonio ^a   Di Serio, Francesco ^b  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Catalytic RNAs; Cross protection; Hammerhead ribozymes; RNA silencing; Rolling circle replication

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT VIRUS; REVIEW; VIROID; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT VIRUSES; VIROIDS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AVSUNVIROIDAE; POSPIVIROIDAE; VIROIDS;

EID: 24944468730     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.43.040204.140243     Document Type: Review

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