The 1st International Mycovirus Workshop in JAPAN　　　

Wednesday, April 30

10:00~12:00 Morning Sessions

12:00~13:30 Lunch

13:30~16:30  Afternoon Sessions

17:00~18:30  Relaxation in onsen

18:30~20:30  Welcome party (nomunication)     

 

Thursday, May 1

7:00~9:00      Morning onsen and breakfast

9:00~10:00    Walk to Mt Washu

 

Scientific Program

Wednesday, April 30

　Session I  10:00~12:00Chairperson: Y. Kuga (Shinshu University)

 

Marilyn J Roossinck and Tracy Feldman, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Biodiversity of Endophytic Fungal Viruses

 

Kenichi Ikeda*, Hitoshi Nakamura**, Naoyuki Matsumoto**** Organization of Advanced Science and Technology, Kobe University, ** National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, *** National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Japan, Dynamics of double-stranded RNA in white and violet root rot fungi

 

Naoyuki Matsumoto, Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Japan, Double-stranded RNA as a marler of clonal growth of the snow mold fungus Typhula ishikariensis

 

Yumi Magae, China Ohta* and Masahide Sunagawa, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Matsunosato 1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan *Hokken Co.,LTD. Tochigi, 321-02, Japan, A New Totivirus in the basidiomycete, Lentinula edodes

 

Atsuko Sasaki, Satoko Kanematsu, Hitoshi Nakamura, Takanori Shimane and Kouji Yoshida, Plant Pathology Research Team, National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Japan, Two viral transfection protocols for Rosellinia necatrix.

 

　Session II  13:30~15:00　Chairperson: Donald L. Nuss (CBR, UMBI)

 

S. Kanematsu, A. Sasaki, Y. Oikawa, M. Onoue, Apple Research Station, National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Morioka, Japan, Potential hosts for two Rosellinia necatrix mycoviruses identified by protoplast inoculation

 

Hiromitsu Moriyama1, Sachie Kato1, Yu Suzuki1, Nanako Aoki1, Tsutomu Arie2, Tohru Teraoka2 and Toshiyuki Fukuhara1, 1Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, 2Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, Mycoviruses associated with impaired growth of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae.

  

Nanako Aoki,1 Hiromitsu Moriyama,1 Motoichiro Kodama,3 Tsutomu Arie,2 Tohru Teraoka2 and Toshiyuki Fukuhara1,  1Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, 2Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 3Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, Japan, Mycovirus containing four double-stranded RNAs affects host fungal growth in Alternaria alternata

 

Kyung-Mi Lee1, Jisuk Yu1, Sun-Jung Kwon2 and Kook-Hyung Kim1, 1Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and 2Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea, Characterization of Fusarium graminearumvirus (FgV) strain DK21 and identification of viral protein interactions

  

Ida Bagus Andika, Muhammad Danial Rahim, Cheng Gui Han,† Hideki Kondo and Tetsuo Tamada, Agrivirology Laboratory, Research Institute for Bioresources, Okayama University, Japan, Beet necrotic yellow vein virus RNA4-encoded p31 is involved in efficient fungal transmission, symptom severity and silencing suppression in roots

 

　Session III    15:00~16:30　Chairperson: Marilyn J Roossinck (Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation)　

 

Liying Sun and Nobuhiro Suzuki*, Agrivirology Laboratory, Research Institute for Bioresources, Okayama University, Japan, Intragenic rearrangements of a mycoreovirus induced by the multifunctional protein p29 encoded by the prototypic hypovirus CHV1-EP713

 

Shin Kasahara1 and Donald L. Nuss2   1Department of Environmental Sciences, Miyagi University School of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Japan, 2Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, USA, Hypovirus infection affecting G-protein signaling pathways.

Ana Eusebio-Cope, Md Iqbal Faruk, and Nobuhiro Suzuki, Agrivirology Laboratory, Research Institute for Bioresources, Okayama University, Japan, A HOST FACTOR, NAM-1, ASSOCIATED WITH HYPOVIRUS SYMPTOM EXPRESSION IN THE CHESTNUT BLIGHT FUNGUS

 

Fuyou Deng and Donald L. Nuss, Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, USA. Hypovirus papain-like protease p48 is required for initiation but not for maintenance of virus RNA propagation in the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica.