Rice stripe virus (RSV), the type member of the genus Tenuivirus, causes rice stripe disease and the viral transmission is mediated through the sucking by small brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus. Considerations have been mainly focused on the protection of rice from RSV and/or the planthopper, rather than the interaction between RSV and the insect. To clarify the interaction, in this work, mRNA was extracted from RSV-viruliferous planthopper with non-viruliferous control, and expressed sequence tag (EST) databases were generated based on 454 GS-FLX pyrosequencing technology for comparative analysis. RSV-viruliferous planthopper had ca. 2500 isotigs, which included genes on biological process (19%), cellular component (13%), molecular function (22%) and no hits (46%) from gene ontology (GO) analysis; this structure was similar to the control. However, in the viruliferous planthopper, 109 isotigs were up-regulated and 660 isotigs were down-regulated, compared to the non-viruliferous control. These RSV-dependently regulated genes may have important function in the behavior of planthopper or the transmission of RSV.

• Joo Hyun Lee(Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
• Jae Young Choi(Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
• Yong Wang(Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
• Jae Su Kim(Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
• Yeon Ho Je(Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)