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A real-time, quantitative PCR seed assay for Botrytis spp. that cause neck rot of onion

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PLANT DISEASE
Volume 91, Issue 5, Pages 599-608

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AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-91-5-0599

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kinetic PCR; scape blight; umbel blight

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A real-time fluorescent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was developed using SYBR Green chemistry to quantify the Botrytis spp. associated with onion (Allium cepa) seed that are also able to induce neck rot of onion bulbs, i.e., B. aclada, B. allii, and B. byssoidea. The nuclear ribosomal intergenic spacer (IGS) regions of target and nontarget Botrytis spp. were sequenced, aligned, and used to design a primer pair specific to B. aclada, B. allii, and B. byssoidea. Primers and amplification parameters were optimized to avoid amplifying the related species B. cinerea B. porri, and B. squamosa, as well as Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and isolates of 15 other fungai species commonly found associated with onion seed. The primers reliably detected 10 fg of genomic DNA per PCR reaction extracted from pure Cultures of B. aclada and B. allii. Conventional assays of surface-disinfested and nondisinfested seed on an agar medium were used to determine the incidence of neck rot Botrytis spp. associated with each of 23 commercial onion seed lobs, and the real-time PCR assay was used to determine the quantity of DNA of neck rot Botrytis; spp. in each seed lot. A linear relationship could not be found between the incidence of seed infected with the neck rot Botrytis spp. using the conventional agar seed assays and the quantity of DNA of the neck rot Botrytis spp. detected by the real-time PCR assay. However. the real-time PCR assay appeared to be more sensitive than the conventional agar assay, allowing detection of neck rot Botrytis spp. in 5 of the 23 seed lots that tested negative using the conventional agar seed assay.

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