ViroiDoc MSCA Fellow Lara Palatinus reports on the opportunity to learn more about viroid research in hop plants during her study visit in October 2025 to the University of Hohenheim.
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17/11/2025 - 0 CommentsViroiDoc welcomes 10 new MSCA FellowsRead More10 new MSCA Doctoral Fellows will join the international effort to unravel how viroids - the smallest known infectious agents - cause diseases in plants and threaten agricultural production worldwide.
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10/11/2025 - 0 CommentsPlant Immunity and Host DefenceRead MoreVisit the ViroiDoc YouTube channel to watch a featured video lecture on how plants defend themselves against pathogens and pests by Professor Purificación Lisón from the Valencia Polytechnic University.
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- What Are Viroids? Taking A Peek At The World’s Smallest Pathogens (2023) by William A. Haseltine in Forbes.
- Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes (2024) by Ivan N. Zheludev, Robert C. Edgar, Maria Jose Lopez-Galiano, Marcos de la Peña, Artem Babaian, Ami S. Bhatt and Andrew Z. Fire on Science Direct.
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