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Abstract

Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) is able to infect a number of herbaceous and woody hosts, such as grapevine, or plants. Previous phylogenetic analyses have suggested the existence of three major groups of HSVd isolates (plum-type, hop-type and citrus-type). The fact that these groups often contain isolates from only a limited number of isolation hosts prompted the suggestion that group-discriminating sequence variations could, in fact, represent host-specific sequence determinants which may facilitate or be required for replication in a given host. In an effort to further understand the relationships between HSVd and its different hosts, HSVd variants from eight naturally infected sources, including apricot, peach and Japanese plum have been cloned and sequenced. In total, ten molecular variants of HSVd have been identified, nine of which have not been described before. A detailed phylogenetic analysis of the existing HSVd sequences, including the new ones from determined in this work, points towards a redefinition of the grouping of variants of this viroid, since two new groups were identified, one of them composed of sequences described here. A bias for the presence of certain sequences and/or structures in certain hosts was observed, although no conclusive host-determinants were found. Surprisingly, our analysis revealed that a number of HSVd isolates probably derived from recombination events and thatthe previous hop-type group itself is likelyto be the result of a recombination between members of the plum-type and citrus-type groups.

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