Complete genome sequence of Himetobi P strain Sh.Moghodam

Himetobi P (HiPV), which is pathogenic to insect pests of agricultural importance is belonging to the genus Triatovirus in the Dicistroviridae family within the Picornavirales order. HiPV was first isolated from the small brown planthopper (SBPH) in Japan in the 1990s. The virus is a Non enveloped, pseudo3 icosahedral capsid, about 30 nm in diameter., which contains a linear single-stranded RNA genome. The genome of HiPV consists of 9 kb excluding the VPg bound at the 5'-terminus and a 3'-polyA tract, and it has two non-overlapping large open reading frames (ORF1&ORF2) separated by intergenic region (IGR) as an internal ribosome entry site 176-nucleotide noncoding region, which respectively encode the nonstructural and structural proteins.