viroids are smallest, single-stranded, circular, highly structured plant pathogenic rnas that do not code for any protein. viroids belong to two families, the avsunviroidae and the pospiviroidae. members of the pospiviroidae family adopt a rod-like secondary structure. in this study the most stable secondary structures of citrus viroid variants that reported from fars province were drawn. the m...

Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) is able to infect a number of herbaceous and woody hosts, such as grapevine, Citrus or Prunus plants. Previous phylogenetic analyses have suggested the existence of three major groups of HSVd isolates (plum-type, hop-type and citrus-type). The fact that these groups often contain isolates from only a limited number of isolation hosts prompted the suggestion that group-di...

Abstract Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) and Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) are the causal agents of most important diseases of citrus. Previously we reported a novel variant of HSVd that constantly associated with the yellow corky vein disease. Here, 19 individual citrus leaves with yellow corky vein symptoms were sampled for CTV by ELISA. In this study, most symptomatic samples were found to be inf...

abstract hop stunt viroid (hsvd) and citrus tristeza virus (ctv) are the causal agents of most important diseases of citrus. previously we reported a novel variant of hsvd that constantly associated with the yellow corky vein disease. here, 19 individual citrus leaves with yellow corky vein symptoms were sampled for ctv by elisa. in this study, most symptomatic samples were found to be infected...