%0 Journal Article %A ZHANG Song-bai %A LUO Han-gang %A ZHANG Qiu-dong %A ZHANG Chang-qing %A WU Zu-jian %A XIE Lian-hui %T A Dwarf Disease on Rice in Hubei Province, China is Caused by Southern Rice Black-Streaked Dwarf Virus %D 2011 %R 10.3969/j.issn.1001-7216.2011.02.017 %J Chinese Journal OF Rice Science %P 223-226 %V 25 %N 2 %X Recently, the epidemic of rice black-streaked dwarf disease caused by rice black-streaked dwarf virus or southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus has caused great yield losses in rice production in South China and East China. However, the occurrence of this disease in Hubei Province, China has not been reported. In 2009 and 2010, a rice dwarf disease, similar to rice black-streaked dwarf disease, caused great rice yield losses in some counties of Hubei Province along the Yangtze River. By symptom observation, dsRNA profiling and RT-PCR, the pathogen of the rice dwarf disease was identified as southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus(SRBSDV). This indicates that SRBSDV has been spread from the south to the central rice-growing area of China by the insect vector Sogatella furcifera. %U http://www.ricesci.cn/EN/10.3969/j.issn.1001-7216.2011.02.017