Characterization and development of qPCR for early detection and quantification of Pseudocercospora macadamiae at different stages of infection process
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- 作者：C. E. Ong ; J. Henderson ; O. A. Akinsanmi
- 关键词：Fungal diagnostic ; Hyphomycetes ; Proteaceae ; qPCR ; Tree nut
- 刊名：European Journal of Plant Pathology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：147
- 期：1
- 页码：85-102
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- 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
- 刊物主题：Plant Pathology; Plant Sciences; Ecology; Agriculture; Life Sciences, general;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-8469
- 卷排序：147
文摘
Ability to detect Pseudocercospora macadamiae infection in macadamia husk at least four months before symptoms become visible will aid the development of disease control measures. This study examined the distinctness of P. macadamiae within the phylogenetic lineages of the genus Pseudocercospora. In addition, we developed two quantitative PCR (qPCR) assays, as rapid diagnostic tools, for early detection and quantification of P. macadamiae in planta. Phylogenetic analysis of concatenated sequences of four gene loci (large subunits, internal transcribed spacer (ITS), translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF-1α) and actin of 47 P. macadamiae isolates showed that P. macadamiae is a distinct species in the genus Pseudocercospora. P. macadamiae isolates were partitioned into subunits in the cluster but the grouping of the isolates was regardless of location. Nucleotide diversity (0.02) and the coefficient of genetic differentiation (0.07) were low in the P. macadamiae population. Two qPCR primer sets, based on ITS (PMI) and TEF-1α (PME) were designed that consistently amplified P. macadamiae in fungal cultures (Ct = 16.93 ± 0.11 and Ct = 21.20 ± 0.11, respectively) and in planta (Ct = 32.36 ± 0.28 and Ct = 38.07 ± 1.20, respectively). The PMI primers also detected species in the genus Pseudocercospora, while PME was more specific and robust for quantification of P. macadamiae. Both primer sets detected P. macadamiae in asymptomatic tissue samples and strongly differentiated various stages of disease progression, which revealed approximately 10-fold increase in fungal biomass between each consecutive stage of symptom development.