After extracting an organism, the scientist listed out the below features about it: (i) smaller than a virus, (ii) its nucleic acid had ribose as sugar, and (iii) lacks a protein coat. Which of the following diseases is likely to be produced by it?

Step-by-step solution

Potato spindle tuber disease affects the potato plant where the tubers are malformed and stunts the growth of the plant. This disease is caused by viroids which are smaller than virus and without any capsid covering of protein. It is basically a free floating single strand RNA.