Next-generation high throughput sequencing technologies became available at the onset of
the 21st century. They provide a highly efficient, rapid, and low cost DNA sequencing …

Rice stripe disease caused by Rice stripe virus (RSV) is one of the most devastating plant
viruses of rice and causes enormous losses in production. RSV is transmitted from plant to …

RNA silencing, an evolutionarily conserved and sequence-specific gene-inactivation
system, has a pivotal role in antiviral defense in most eukaryotic organisms. In plants, a class …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been applied to plant virology since 2009. NGS
provides highly efficient, rapid, low cost DNA, or RNA high-throughput sequencing of the …

Remorins are plant-specific membrane-associated proteins and were proposed to play
crucial roles in plant–pathogen interactions. However, little is known about how pathogens …

RNA interference (RNAi)-based antiviral defense generates small interfering RNAs that
represent the entire genome sequences of both RNA and DNA viruses as well as viroids …

Rice stripe virus (RSV) causes severe diseases in Oryza sativa (rice) in many Eastern Asian
countries. Disease-specific protein (SP) of RSV is a non-structural protein and its …

RNAi is applied as a new and safe method for pest control in agriculture but efficiency and
specificity of delivery of dsRNA trigger remains a critical issue. Various agents have been …

In plants, RNA interference (RNAi) generates small interfering (si) RNAs from entire
genomes of viruses, satellites and viroids. Therefore, deep small (s) RNA sequencing is a …

Background Viral small RNAs (vsiRNAs) in the infected host can be generated from viral
double-stranded RNA replicative intermediates, self-complementary regions of the viral …