Journal
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGICAL METHODS
Volume 192, Issue 1-2, Pages 51-54Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2013.04.014
Keywords
Potato Leafroll virus; DAS-ELISA; LAMP reaction; GeneFinder (TM) dye
Funding
- Department of Agriculture and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
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The most common virus affecting potatoes in the field worldwide is Potato Leafroll virus (PLRV), belonging to the family Luteoviridae, genius Plerovirus. There are several molecular methods to detect PLRV including polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Multiplex AmpliDet RNA and double antibody sandwich ELISA (DAS-ELISA). But these techniques take a long time for 3 h to two days, requiring sophisticated tools. The aim of this study was to reduce the time required to detect PLRV, using a newly designed loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) technique requiring only an ordinary water bath or thermoblock. PLRV RNA was extracted from overall 80 infected naturally potato leaves. A set of six novel primers for the LAMP reaction was designed according to the highly conserved sequence of the viral coat protein (CP) gene. LAMP was carried out under isothermal conditions, applying the Bst DNA polymerase enzyme; the LAMP products were detected visually using the GeneFinder (TM) florescence dye. A positive result using the GeneFinder (TM) dye was a color change from the original orange to green. Results confirmed LAMP with GeneFinder (TM) provides a rapid and safe assay for detection of PLRV. Since with other molecular methods, equipping laboratories with a thermocycler or expensive detector systems is unavoidable, this assay was found to be a simple, cost-effective molecular method that has the potential to replace other diagnostic methods in primary laboratories without the need for expensive equipment or specialized techniques. It can also be considered as a reliable alternative viral detection system in further investigations. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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