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He suggested calling it a viroid. It was the smallest replicating agent ever identified. At a stroke, Diener had expanded our understanding… ...

Ivan Zheludev, a biochemist at Stanford University and the first author of the paper, and his colleagues, classify these obelisks as viroid-like RNAs. Viroids themselves are only found in plants, so ...

He also plans to hunt for hop latent viroid, a longtime scourge of hop plants used in making beer that’s recently running rampant in cannabis.

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Through this method, the negatives, for example, hops latent viroid which can infect cannabis and cause significant reductions in yield, can be removed from the plant, Fauls explained.

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Where obelisks differ is in their shape and structure. Obelisks are rolled into a rod shape instead of remaining a flat circle, and their RNA sequences don’t match any known viroid sequences.

The preprint paper from Stanford calls them “viroid-like”—a viroid is one step down from a virus. While a virus needs a host to allow it to replicate, that hasn’t slowed them down.