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Cultivated grapevines represent a symptomless reservoir for the transmission of hop stunt viroid to hop crops: 15 years of evolutionary analysis.
PloS one - 24 Dec 2009
Kawaguchi-Ito Yoko, Li Shi-Fang, Tagawa Masaya, Araki Hiroyuki, Goshono Masafumi, Yamamoto Shingen, Tanaka Mayumi, Narita Masako, Tanaka Kazuaki, Liu Sheng-Xue, Shikata Eishiro, Sano Teruo
Abstract excerpt
Hop stunt was a mysterious disorder that first emerged in the 1940s in commercial hops in Japan. To investigate the origin of this disorder, we infected hops with natural Hop stunt viroid (HpSVd) isolates derived from four host species (hop, grapevine, plum and citrus), which except for hop represent possible sources of the ancestral viroid. These plants were maintained for 15 years, then analyzed the HpSVd...
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