bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Augment rice <i>ANNEXIN</i> expression to counter planthopper <i>Nl</i>Annexin-like5 as an anti-virulence strategy against a major crop pest
August 2025 • Xiaoya Zhang, Shaoqin Li, Comzit Opachaloemphan, Chuan‐Xi Zhang, Yanjuan Jiang, Sheng Yang He
Abstract The brown planthopper (BPH) is the most devastating insect pest in rice, posing a serious threat to global rice production. One attractive control strategy would be based on the understanding of the virulence mechanisms of BPH at the molecular level and then designing targeted methods to neutralize such mechanisms. Salivary proteins of BPH are important players in mediating rice-BPH interactions. Here, we describe a pivotal role of a watery saliva protein, Nl Annexin-like5 ( Nl ANX5), in the rice-BPH inte…