Avocado sunblotch disease: a persistent viroid infection in which variants are associated with differential symptoms.

doi:10.1099/0022-1317-75-7-1543

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Avocado sunblotch disease: a persistent viroid infection in which variants are associated with differential symptoms.

The Journal of general virology - 1 Jul 1994

Semancik J S, Szychowski J A

Abstract excerpt

Variants of avocado sunblotch viroid (ASBVd) of between 247 and 250 nucleotides in length have been recovered from diseased avocado tissues. The sunblotch syndrome covers a complex pattern of disease symptoms which are associated with infection by variants of ASBVd. The viroid species are designa...

Topics

Base Sequence
Cloning, Molecular
DNA, Complementary
Fruit
Genetic Variation
Molecular Sequence Data
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Plant Diseases
RNA, Viral
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Viroids

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