BMC Plant Biology BioMed Central Research article Open Access Rice Yellow Mottle Virus stress responsive genes from susceptible and tolerant rice genotypes Marjolaine Ventelon-Debout1, Christine Tranchant-Dubreuil1, Thi-Thu- Huang Nguyen1, Martine Bangratz1, Christelle Siré1, Michel Delseny2 and Christophe Brugidou*1 Address: 1UMR5096, IRD 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP54501, 34394 Montpellier, France and 2UMR5096, Université de Perpignan 52, Avenue de Villeneuve, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France Email: Marjolaine Ventelon-Debout -
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[email protected] * Corresponding author Published: 3 March 2008 Received: 15 October 2007 Accepted: 3 March 2008 BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:26 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-8-26 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/8/26 © 2008 Ventelon-Debout et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The effects of viral infection involve concomitant plant gene variations and cellular changes. A simple system is required to assess the complexity of host responses to viral infection. The genome of the Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) is a single-stranded RNA with a simple organisation. It is the most well-known monocotyledon virus model.