“…On the other hand, the BPH causes mechanical wounding by chewing, but it does not kill the host cells as a biotrophic insect (Sogawa, 1976;Kim and Sohn, 2005). In an earlier study, we screened O. minuta transcriptomes from wound-, BPH-, or rice blasttreated leaves and normal conditioned leaves in a high-throughput system to identify useful defenserelated genes from O. minuta (Cho et al, 2004a(Cho et al, , 2004b(Cho et al, , 2005Shim et al, 2004). In the study reported here, we identified a novel gene induced by wound-, BPH-, and M. oryzae in O. minuta.…”