New discovery to fight citrus exocortis viroid
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

What`s a viroid like you doing in a ribosome like this? This is the question set out by a team from the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP, in Spanish), a joint center of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, in Spanish). The answer opens a door, unknown until now, to fight viroids. These pathogens have great infectious power in plants, and they are one of the biggest enemies of crops, especially citrus crops.