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Suppression of NS3 and MP is important for the stable inheritance of RNAi-mediated rice stripe virus (RSV) resistance obtained by targeting the fully complementary RSV-CP gene.

ABSTRACT: Rice stripe virus (RSV) is a viral disease that seriously impacts rice production in East Asia, most notably in Korea, China, and Japan. Highly RSV-resistant transgenic japonica rice plants were generated using a dsRNAi construct designed to silence the entire sequence region of the RSV-CP gene. Transgenic rice plants were inoculated with a population of viruliferous insects, small brown planthoppers (SBPH), and their resistance was evaluated using ELISA and an infection rate assay. A correlation between the expression of the RSV-CP homologous small RNAs and the RSV resistance of the transgenic rice lines was discovered. These plants were also analyzed by comparing the expression pattern of invading viral genes, small RNA production and the stable transmission of the RSV resistance trait to the T3 generation. Furthermore, the agronomic trait was stably transmitted to the T4 generation of transgenic plants.

SUBMITTER: Park HM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3887747 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Suppression of NS3 and MP is important for the stable inheritance of RNAi-mediated rice stripe virus (RSV) resistance obtained by targeting the fully complementary RSV-CP gene.

Park Hyang-Mi HM Choi Man-Soo MS Kwak Do-Yeon DY Lee Bong-Choon BC Lee Jong-Hee JH Kim Myeong-Ki MK Kim Yeon-Gyu YG Shin Dong-Bum DB Park Soon-Ki SK Kim Yul-Ho YH

Molecules and cells 20111129 1

Rice stripe virus (RSV) is a viral disease that seriously impacts rice production in East Asia, most notably in Korea, China, and Japan. Highly RSV-resistant transgenic japonica rice plants were generated using a dsRNAi construct designed to silence the entire sequence region of the RSV-CP gene. Transgenic rice plants were inoculated with a population of viruliferous insects, small brown planthoppers (SBPH), and their resistance was evaluated using ELISA and an infection rate assay. A correlatio ...[more]

PMID: 22134721

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Suppression of NS3 and MP is important for the stable inheritance of RNAi-mediated rice stripe virus (RSV) resistance obtained by targeting the fully complementary RSV-CP gene.

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Suppression of NS3 and MP is important for the stable inheritance of RNAi-mediated rice stripe virus (RSV) resistance obtained by targeting the fully complementary RSV-CP gene.

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