Transcriptome and comparative gene expression analysis of Sogatella furcifera (Horvath) in response to southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The white backed planthopper (WBPH), Sogatella furcifera (Horváth), causes great damage to many crops by direct feeding or transmitting plant viruses. Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV), transmitted by WBPH, has become a great threat to rice production in East Asia.

Methodology/principal findings

By de novo transcriptome assembling and massive parallel pyrosequencing, we constructed two transcriptomes of WBPH and profiled the alternation of gene expression in response to SRBSDV infection in transcriptional level. Over 25 million reads of high-quality DNA sequences and 81388 different unigenes were generated using Illumina technology from both viruliferous and non-viruliferous WBPH. WBPH has a very similar gene ontological distribution to other two c

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3338671 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature