Hop latent viroid (HLVd) is one of the most devastating things ever to hit cannabis, with researchers estimating it could be costing the industry up to $4 billion per year in financial loss. But are ...

Hop latent viroid (HLVd) has emerged as a major challenge for cannabis cultivation and plant pathology research. A member of the viroid family, HLVd is one of the smallest known infectious agents, ...

While humans battle COVID, cannabis plants face an equally devastating threat: Hop latent viroid (HLVd), a viroid that occurs worldwide in hops, but in recent years jumped to cannabis, destroying THC ...

DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dark Heart Industries, California’s leading cannabis genetics company, has completed 200,000 tissue tests for Hop Latent Viroid (HpLVd) and uncovered ...

A viroid that several scientists call "the biggest concern for cannabis and hop growers worldwide," is in Michigan. Called hop latent viroid (HLVd), the viroid, a tiny infectious particle smaller than ...

The cannabis and hop industries are facing a devastating threat that could cost billions of dollars in losses. Hop latent viroid (HpLVd) is spreading rapidly, posing a serious challenge to growers ...

Viroids are unique systems for the study of RNA structure, function and evolution. They are the minimal RNA replicons characterized so far their genome is ten-fold smaller than that the smallest known ...

A team of researchers has developed a computational pipeline to identify and better understand viroids and viroid-like covalently closed circular RNAs (cccRNAs, also referred to as, simply, circular ...