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Oil palm genetic orange spotting (205) Print Fact Sheet

Summary

Common Name

Oil palm genetic orange spotting

Scientific Name

Oil palm orange spotting viroid, and its abbreviation is OOSVd. A viroid is a length of RNA, much smaller than the RNA of the smallest virus, and without a protein coat. OOSVd is closely related to a viroid in the Philippines, Coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd), which causes a lethal disease in coconuts and other palms.


AUTHOR Grahame Jackson
Information (and Photos 1&2) Dagmar Hanold and John Randles, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, South Australia.

Produced with support from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research under project PC/2010/090: Strengthening integrated crop management research in the Pacific Islands in support of sustainable intensification of high-value crop production, implemented by the University of Queensland and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.



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