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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY
Volume 108, Issue 4, Pages 355-366Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015697813352
Keywords
diagnostics; internal transcribed spacer regions; real-time PCR; soilborne pathogen; white root rot
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Several polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers were designed from the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of the rDNA genes of Rosellinia necatrix to develop a PCR-based identification method. Screening the primers against two isolates of R. necatrix and six other Rosellinia species resulted in the amplification of a single specific product from R. necatrix for most of the primer pairs. Two primer pairs (R2-R8 and R10-R7) confirmed their specificity when tested against 72 isolates of R. necatrix and 93 other fungi from different hosts and geographic areas. The R10 primer was modified to obtain a Scorpion primer for detecting a specific 112 bp amplicon by fluorescence emitted from a fluorophore in a self-probing PCR assay. This assay specifically recognised the target sequence of R. necatrix over a large number of other fungal species. In conventional PCR, with primer pairs R2-R8 and R10-R7, 10-fold dilutions of R. necatrix DNA indicated a detection limit of 10 pg muul(-1) using a single set of primers and 10 fg mul(-1) in nested-PCR. For Scorpion-PCR, the detection limit was 1 pg mul(-1) and 1 fg mul(-1) in nested Scorpion-PCR, i.e. 10 times more sensitive than conventional PCR. A simple and rapid procedure for DNA extraction directly from soil was modified and developed to yield DNA of purity and quality suitable for PCR assays. Combining this protocol with the nested Scorpion-PCR procedure it has been possible to specifically detect R. necatrix from artificially inoculated soils in approximately 6 h.
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