title: [Plant-infecting reoviruses].
abstract: The family Reoviridae separates two subfamilies and consists of 15 genera. Fourteen viruses in three genera (Phytoreovirus, Oryzavirus, and Fijivirus) infect plants. The outbreaks of the plant-infecting reoviruses cause sometime the serious yield loss of rice and maize, and are a menace to safe and efficient food production in the Southeast Asia.　The plant-infecting reoviruses are double-shelled icosahedral particles, from 50 to 80nm in diameter, and include from 10 to 12 segmented double-stranded genomic RNAs depending on the viruses. These viruses are transmitted in a persistent manner by the vector insects and replicated in both plants and in their vectors. This review provides a brief overview of the plant-infecting reoviruses and their recent research progresses including the strategy for viral controls using transgenic rice plants.
authors.affiliation: Agro-Environment Research Division,NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center.
authors.forename: Takahide
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sasaya
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002477:Cells; D016679:Genome, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007313:Insecta / Q000166:cytology / Q000821:virology; D059828:Plant Cells / Q000821:virology; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D010944:Plants / Q000821:virology*; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000821:virology; D012087:Reoviridae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology; D014779:Virus Replication