Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 281-288.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2021-0461

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Discovery of Viruses from Small Brown Planthopper by Small RNA Deep Sequencing

PIAO Jun1(), ZHANG Lu-Jie1,2, PIAO Jing-Ai1,2, ZHOU Yi-Jun2, LI Shuo2()   

  1. 1. College of Life Science,Liaoning Normal University,Dalian 116081
    2. Institute of Plant Protection,Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Nanjing 210014
  • Received:2021-04-09 Online:2022-02-26 Published:2022-03-09
  • Contact: LI Shuo E-mail:piaojun1188@163.com;lishuo@jaas.ac.cn

Abstract:

Small brown planthopper(SBPH)(Laodelphax striatellus Fallén)is an important agricultural pest. As a virus vector,it can transmit some plant viruses,which cause viral diseases of grain crops,including rice,wheat and maize. At present,there is no comprehensive understanding of insect virus species in SBPH,thus it is difficult to conduct relevant research on SBPH management by exploiting insect viruses. In this paper,in order to excavate insect virus resources,the virus species in SBPH were identified by small RNA deep sequencing technology. The results showed that 13 viruses were found via sequencing data alignment,involving in 8 families and 2 unclassified viruses. Besides the dominant rice stripe virus,the rest were specialized parasitic insect viruses,including 5 positive-stranded RNA viruses,2 single-stranded DNA viruses and 5 double-stranded DNA viruses. Among them,a new virus similar to Drosophlia A virus was identified,and the 1-1 932 nt nucleotides of viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase(RdRp)gene was obtained. After Blast and phylogenetic analysis,the unusual “C-A-B” permutation was found in the palm subdomain conserved region of RdRp,which was a unique arrangement pattern of Permutotetraviridae viruses,thus it was considered that the virus was a novel permutotetra-like virus,temporarily named Laodelphax striatellus permutotetra-like virus(LsPLV). A permutotetra-like virus was first identified in Hemiptera insect. The study suggests that insect virus species are abundant in SBPH,which lays the foundation for biological control of SBPH by exploiting insect viruses in the future.

Key words: small brown planthopper, insect virus, small RNA deep sequencing, Laodelphax striatellus permutotetra-like virus