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Essential to understanding how viroids function is the determination of their nucleotide sequences. Within each viroid sequence is all the information to allow it to function in vivo. Our major problem is to relate this sequence to the secondary and tertiary structure of the viroid and the way in which this information is encoded, interpreted, and expressed in the plant cell.
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Keese, P., Symons, R.H. (1987). Physical-Chemical Properties. In: Diener, T.O. (eds) The Viroids. The Viruses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1855-2_3
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