Molecular variability of Hop stunt viroid: Identification of a unique variant with a tandem 15-nucleotide repeat from naturally infected plum tree

Biochemical Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 113-123

  Yang, Yuan Ai ^a,b   Wang, Hong Qing ^b   Wu, Zu Jian ^c   Cheng, Zhuo Min ^a   Li, Shi Fang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hop stunt viroid; Intramolecular recombination; Plum; Recombination; Sequence repeat

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHINA; CUCUMBER; HOP STUNT VIROID; INOCULATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLUM; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SAMPLE; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TREE; VIROID;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PRUNUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIROIDS;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; HOP STUNT VIROID; PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 43449114173     PISSN: 00062928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10528-007-9134-6     Document Type: Article

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