Lab Members
Dr. Fatemeh Khodadadi Valentina Valencia Alborz Amani Zahra Pegahrad
Avocado Sunblotch Viroid Disease and Challenges to Tackle
Fungi, bacteria, and viruses are three major types of pathogens causing plant diseases and majority of growers know about them or at the very least, have heard about them. But how many know about the world’s smallest infectious pathogens e.g., viroids? Perhaps few! So, what are viroids? Viroids are infectious agents, smaller than viruses, containing single-stranded, circular RNAs without a protein coat. We know viruses as light travelers; they take the necessities along and by high jacking the biological machinery…