Article
The genetic diversity of Citrus dwarfing viroid populations is mainly dependent on the infected host species.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Mar 2013
Tessitori Matilde, Rizza Serena, Reina Antonella, Causarano Giovanni, Di Serio Francesco
Abstract excerpt
As with viruses, viroids infect their hosts as polymorphic populations of variants. Identifying possible sources of genetic variability is significant in the case of the species Citrus dwarfing viroid (CDVd) which has been proposed as a dwarfing agent for high-density citrus plantings. Here, a natural CDVd isolate (CMC) was used as an inoculum source for long-term (25 years) and short-term (1 year) bioassays in...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Citrus
- DNA, Complementary
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Plant Diseases
- Plant Viruses
- RNA, Viral
- Species Specificity