Hop latent viroid (HLVd) is one of the most devastating things ever to hit cannabis, with researchers estimating it could be costing the industry up to $4 billion per year in financial loss. But are ...

There's a new threat that may affect a mainstay fruit source for many of the state's growers – Florida avocados. Agricultural experts in Florida are warning this month about a disease, sunblotch ...

The cannabis and hop industries are facing a devastating threat that could cost billions of dollars in losses. Hop latent viroid (HpLVd) is spreading rapidly, posing a serious challenge to growers ...

Viroids are the smallest known plant pathogens, comprising single-stranded, circular RNAs of a few hundred nucleotides and lacking any protein-coding capacity. They are classified into two families ...

A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and collaborating academic research institutions have developed a computational pipeline to identify and better understand viroids and ...

While humans battle COVID, cannabis plants face an equally devastating threat: Hop latent viroid (HLVd), a viroid that occurs worldwide in hops, but in recent years jumped to cannabis, destroying THC ...

Hop latent viroid (HLVd) has emerged as a major challenge for cannabis cultivation and plant pathology research. A member of the viroid family, HLVd is one of the smallest known infectious agents, ...

A viroid that several scientists call "the biggest concern for cannabis and hop growers worldwide," is in Michigan. Called hop latent viroid (HLVd), the viroid, a tiny infectious particle smaller than ...

A team of researchers has developed a computational pipeline to identify and better understand viroids and viroid-like covalently closed circular RNAs (cccRNAs, also referred to as, simply, circular ...

Theodor O. Diener, a Swiss-born scientist whose investigation more than half a century ago of shriveled, stunted potatoes yielded the discovery of the tiniest known agent of infectious disease, a ...