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Laboratories that implement this type of technologies in-house must ensure that the performance criteria meet the requirements associated with their diagnostic activity. In this study, we present a workflow for in-house plant viruses and viroid detection, based on total RNA extraction, ribodepletion, Illumina sequencing and bioinformatics analyses. Performance criteria such as analytical sensitivity, analytical specificity, selectivity, repeatability, reproducibility and robustness were evaluated on the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (RNA genome), the tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (DNA genome), and the pepper chat fruit viroid (RNA genome). 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