Infectious RNA are either viruses or viroids. In our newest preprint we show there are also hybrid infectious agents: viroid-like elements which encode their own stolen copy of the RNA virus hallmark-gene, RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase (RdRp). 👇🧵1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am really glad to meet and be able to talk with amazing current and next generation virologists and viroidologists at the #Viroid Meeting 2022!!! I am really hoping to see them again and more people in Bari 🇮🇹 for Viroid 2025 Meeting!

Kalantidis, Daros and F di Serio welcome everyone to the 4th Viroid Meeting and led the tribute to Ricardo Flores #Viroid2022 “Fantastic viroid meeting in Crete! We learned about thousands of viroid-like RNAs out there and many more interesting stories” 👉viroid2021.gr/index.php

So glad to share our serendipity discovery @jxb Big applause to the team with PhD student Adriana G. and incredible collaborators from @CRAGENOMICA & IBMCP - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular CSIC Universitat Politècnica de València Find out what the story is about here ➡️ academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

Thrilled to share our recent study on the organization of Pol II complex for trabscribing a RNA template (viroid) #PLOSPathogens: A remodeled RNA polymerase II complex catalyzing viroid RNA-templated transcription dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… Done by Shachinthaka and great coauthors

Proud to be part of the special issue in memory of Prof. G.P. Martelli. In our new article, mdpi.com/1886764 #mdpiviruses via Viruses MDPI, we describe a new viroid-like RNA transiently associated with citrus

We are honored to remember our scientific mentor and friend Ricardo Flores with this review on the role of RNA silencing in plant-viroid interactions, which is part of the special issue in his memory published by Virus Research. authors.elsevier.com/a/1f~EjcFCkM2B…

This article in memory of Prof. Ricardo Flores reviews early studies in his lab that allowed discovering four new viroids that became models to further assess several viroid features (just some of the huge contributions of Ricardo to science) | Home doi.org/10.1016/j.viru…

Take the 10-min anonymous IVIA survey for citrus growers, owners, and workers. They ask about your citrus farm surface, management, & potential quarantine diseases. Your input will inform future decisions & regulations. #citriculturesurvey #pathogens👉bit.ly/3m3I9fB

Interested in knowing about a new world of more than 20000 viroid-like RNAs endowed with ribozymatic activity? Have a look at our paper where we also report viroid/virus hybrid RNA replicons (ambiviruses) rdcu.be/dbp8H

Very happy to share our paper got published on Nature Communications! rdcu.be/dbp8H

Thanks to this fantastic team for this fantastic discovery! nature.com/articles/s4146… Marco Forgia Beatriz Navarro S.Daghino @ameliacervera A.Gisel S.Perotto D.N.Aghayeva M.F.Akinyuwa E.Gobbi @RZheludev Robert Edgar Rayan Chikhi @viroplant Artem Babaian Francesco Marcos de la Peña

We are thrilled to announce our paper published in New Phytologist, in which we show how a chloroplastic viroid (an infectious non-coding RNA) colonizes its host via population bottlenecks and induces chlorosis doi.org/10.1111/nph.18…

Theodor Diener nytimes.com/2023/05/08/sci…

Expression of symptoms elicited by a hammerhead viroid through RNA silencing is related to population bottlenecks in the infected host Serra et al. Francesco Beatriz Navarro IBMCP - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular Javier Forment 📖ow.ly/t3H650OjBJE

Increíble mural en Cocentaina 🥰

Hybrids of RNA viruses and viroid-like elements replicate in fungi Marco Forgia Beatriz Navarro Francesco Artem Babaian Marcos de la Peña IBMCP - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular CSIC University of Toronto INSTITUT PASTEUR CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche #RNAworld #RNAvirus #RNA #virology #fungi nature.com/articles/s4146…

Biodiversità microbica, nuovi agenti infettivi per applicazioni biotecnologiche Sono stati individuati da una ricerca del #Cnr, in collaborazione con Università degli Studi di Brescia e altre istituzioni internazionali. Possibile utilizzo per vaccini virali e nuove terapie cnr.it/it/comunicato-…

This should be the mantra of all scientists "Data before dogma." Nat. Plants 9, 1371 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

Kicking off day two at the final technical project meeting at Universitat Politècnica de València! 🚀 #PREHLB