Deep sequencing of the small RNAs derived from two symptomatic variants of a chloroplastic viroid: Implications for their genesis and for pathogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Di Serio, Francesco ^a   Gisel, Andreas ^b   Navarro, Beatriz ^a   Delgado, Sonia ^c   de Alba, Ángel Emilio Martínez ^c   Donvito, Giacinto ^d   Flores, Ricardo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANT PROTECTION   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER LIKE RIBONUCLEASE 2; DICER LIKE RIBONUCLEASE 4; GENOMIC RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; MOSAIC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PEACH LATENT MOSAIC VIRUS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROID; VIROIDAL PLANT DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLOROPLAST; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRUNUS; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIROLOGY;

LOESELIASTRUM; PEACH LATENT MOSAIC VIROID; PRUNUS PERSICA; VIROIDS;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHLOROPLASTS; CYTOPLASM; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PRUNUS; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; VIROIDS;

EID: 70449562093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007539     Document Type: Article

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