Apple dimple fruit viroid

Apscaviroid • Viroids • other plant pathogens • plant diseases • pests-diseases-weeds

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secondary structure of Apple dimple fruit viroid, black nucleotides are of low reactivity, orange ones of intermediate and red ones of high reactivity, for more details see the original publication (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Tamara Giguère and Jean-Pierre Perreault
Source: PLoS ONE (2017) 12, e0182536

Apple dimple fruit viroid (ADFVd)

This viroid has been reported from Italy and some areas of Asia. It causes depressed, yellow-green, rounded spots on the fruit skin of apple and malformed fruits. Viroid isolates have an RNA between 303 and 307 nt.

For a review see Di Serio et al., 2018.