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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY
Volume 133, Issue 3, Pages 609-620Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10658-012-9939-y
Keywords
Conventional PCR; Nested-PCR; Erwinia amylovora; Fire blight; LAMP
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- director's board of Vanak Seddighin Charity fund of Isfahan-Iran
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A reliable and rapid pathogen detection protocol that utilizes loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) was developed for detection of Erwinia amylovora, the casual agent of fire blight. The six LAMP primers applied were derived from the highly conserved fragment of the chromosomally amsH gene. Despite the proposed LAMP as well as nested PCR presenting equal values of sensitivity (2 x 10(1) CFU/ml or more) for pure cultures, as compared with conventional PCR (2 x 10(3) CFU/ml), both methods were together superior. The specificity assay also showed that the LAMP protocol is species-specific for detection of E. amylovora even in inter-species analysis. Meanwhile, when all 208 naturally infected samples were examined, the specificity value of LAMP was 84%, while conventional and nested PCR could detect only 59% and 73% of the whole collection. Significantly, an independent behaviour versus host plant as well as each strain origin was also observed regarding the current LAMP method as well as other two PCR-based methods. All the results, overall, indicated that the LAMP offers an interesting novel and convenient assay format for the quick and specific chromosomal detection and diagnostic tool of recognition of E. amylovora and therefore presents an alternative to PCR-based assays.
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