Viroids: Petite RNA pathogens with distinguished talents

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 339-348

  Tabler, Martin ^a   Tsagris, Mina ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS RNA;

GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIROID; VIROLOGY;

CARRIER PROTEINS; PLANT DISEASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, VIRAL; VIROIDS;

RNA VIRUSES; VIROIDS;

EID: 3042720856     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2004.05.007     Document Type: Review

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