УДК 632:578:577.2
VIROIDS – THE SMALLEST PATHOGENS OF PLANTS (review)
V.I. Malinovskii
The author has discussed the taxonomy, the secondary structures, the features of replication mechanism and some biological properties of viroids, their role in alteration of expression some plant genes, the mechanism of viroid pathogenicity.
Key words: viroids, structure, classification, replication, movement, pathogenicity.
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