Browsing by Author "Xu, Wenxing"

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    • A circular single-stranded DNA mycovirus infects plants and confers broad-spectrum fungal resistance 

      Wang, Xianhong; Kotta-Loizou, Ioly; Coutts, Robert H.A.; Deng, Huifang; Han, Zhenhao; Hong, Ni; Shafik, Karim; Wang, Liping; Guo, Yashuang; Yang, Mengmeng; Xu, Wenxing; Wang, Guoping (2024-06-03)
      Circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses have been rarely found in fungi, and the evolutionary and ecological relationships among ssDNA viruses infecting fungi and other organisms remain unclear. In this study, a novel ...

    • A novel botybirnavirus with a unique satellite dsRNA causes latent infection in Didymella theifolia isolated from tea plants 

      Ye, Liangchao; Shi, Xinyu; He, Yunqiang; Chen, Jiao; Xu, Qingeng; Shafik, Karim; Fu, Lanning; Yin, Yumeng; Kotta-Loizou, Ioly; Xu, Wenxing (2023-12-12)
      The unique, recently discovered fungus Didymella theifolia specifically infects local varieties of tea plant Camellia sinensis in China, and therefore, the characterization of its mycoviruses is important. Three double-stranded ...

    • Novel Viroid‐Like RNAs Naturally Infect a Filamentous Fungus 

      Dong, Kaili; Xu, Chuan; Kotta‐Loizou, Ioly; Jiang, Jingjing; Lv, Ruiying; Kong, Linghong; Li, Shifang; Hong, Ni; Wang, Guoping; Coutts, Robert H. A.; Xu, Wenxing (2022-12-14)
      To date, viroids have been found to naturally infect only plants, resulting in substantial losses for some crops. Whether viroids or viroid‐like RNAs naturally infect non‐plant hosts remains unknown. Here the existence of ...