Laboratory-scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for erwinia amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants

Erwinia amylovora, the fire blight pathogen, can survive in plants and produce latent infections that can lead to false negative results in routine diagnostic procedures, since the pathogen can be present at very low numbers under the detection limit of available techniques. A protocol combining dif...

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Main Authors: Catalá-Senent, J. F., Penyalver, Javier, Navarro, Luis, Baranauskaite, L., Gorris, María T., López, María M., Marco-Noales, Ester
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6698
http://www.sipav.org/main/jpp/index.php/jpp/article/view/3912
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author Catalá-Senent, J. F.
Penyalver, Javier
Navarro, Luis
Baranauskaite, L.
Gorris, María T.
López, María M.
Marco-Noales, Ester
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Catalá-Senent, J. F.
Gorris, María T.
López, María M.
Marco-Noales, Ester
Navarro, Luis
Penyalver, Javier
author_facet Catalá-Senent, J. F.
Penyalver, Javier
Navarro, Luis
Baranauskaite, L.
Gorris, María T.
López, María M.
Marco-Noales, Ester
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description Erwinia amylovora, the fire blight pathogen, can survive in plants and produce latent infections that can lead to false negative results in routine diagnostic procedures, since the pathogen can be present at very low numbers under the detection limit of available techniques. A protocol combining different techniques included in the EPPO diagnostic standard for E. amylovora (2013) was designed in order to determine the minimum amount of plants necessary for detecting the pathogen in asymptomatic plant material. To this aim, single samples of flowers and shoots from pear, apple, and loquat were spiked with an E. amylovora strain at different concentrations, and then analyzed by isolation, real-time PCR and ELISA-DASI. Thereafter, using the single spiked samples that were positive for any of the techniques used, composite spiked samples were prepared by adding to single spiked samples increasing amounts of plant material. Interestingly, whole results show that the most robust technique, less affected by the amount of plant material, was the real-time PCR after enrichment, since 101 -102 cfu ml-1 of E. amylovora could be detected in most cases, both in flowers and in shoots, regardless of the amount of simulated plants analyzed, 3, 5, 10 or 20. The enrichment was confirmed as a necessary step in the analysis of bulked samples to achieve a greater sensitivity. This study is a relevant contribution for programs of extensive screening surveys for prevention of fire blight disease, since it shows that samples can be processed as a pool, improving the detection of E. amylovora in asymptomatic samples.
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spelling ReDivia66982025-04-25T14:47:41Z Laboratory-scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for erwinia amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants Catalá-Senent, J. F. Penyalver, Javier Navarro, Luis Baranauskaite, L. Gorris, María T. López, María M. Marco-Noales, Ester EPPO ELISA-DASI Enrichment H20 Plant diseases Fire blight Latent infections Surveys Real-time PCR Erwinia amylovora, the fire blight pathogen, can survive in plants and produce latent infections that can lead to false negative results in routine diagnostic procedures, since the pathogen can be present at very low numbers under the detection limit of available techniques. A protocol combining different techniques included in the EPPO diagnostic standard for E. amylovora (2013) was designed in order to determine the minimum amount of plants necessary for detecting the pathogen in asymptomatic plant material. To this aim, single samples of flowers and shoots from pear, apple, and loquat were spiked with an E. amylovora strain at different concentrations, and then analyzed by isolation, real-time PCR and ELISA-DASI. Thereafter, using the single spiked samples that were positive for any of the techniques used, composite spiked samples were prepared by adding to single spiked samples increasing amounts of plant material. Interestingly, whole results show that the most robust technique, less affected by the amount of plant material, was the real-time PCR after enrichment, since 101 -102 cfu ml-1 of E. amylovora could be detected in most cases, both in flowers and in shoots, regardless of the amount of simulated plants analyzed, 3, 5, 10 or 20. The enrichment was confirmed as a necessary step in the analysis of bulked samples to achieve a greater sensitivity. This study is a relevant contribution for programs of extensive screening surveys for prevention of fire blight disease, since it shows that samples can be processed as a pool, improving the detection of E. amylovora in asymptomatic samples. 2020-10-27T08:15:57Z 2020-10-27T08:15:57Z 2017 article publishedVersion Català-Senent, J. F., Peñalver, J., Navarro, I., Baranauskaite, L., Gorris, M. T., López, M. M., & Marco-Noales, E. (2017). Laboratory-scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for Erwinia Amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants. Journal of Plant Pathology, 99, 105-110. 1125-4653 (Print ISSN) 2239-7264 (e-ISSN) http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6698 10.4454/jpp.v99i0.3912 http://www.sipav.org/main/jpp/index.php/jpp/article/view/3912 en Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ openAccess Springer electronico
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ELISA-DASI
Enrichment
H20 Plant diseases
Fire blight
Latent infections
Surveys
Real-time
PCR
Catalá-Senent, J. F.
Penyalver, Javier
Navarro, Luis
Baranauskaite, L.
Gorris, María T.
López, María M.
Marco-Noales, Ester
Laboratory-scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for erwinia amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants
title Laboratory-scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for erwinia amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants
title_full Laboratory-scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for erwinia amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants
title_fullStr Laboratory-scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for erwinia amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants
title_full_unstemmed Laboratory-scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for erwinia amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants
title_short Laboratory-scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for erwinia amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants
title_sort laboratory scale evaluation of composite spiked samples for erwinia amylovora detection in asymptomatic plants
topic EPPO
ELISA-DASI
Enrichment
H20 Plant diseases
Fire blight
Latent infections
Surveys
Real-time
PCR
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6698
http://www.sipav.org/main/jpp/index.php/jpp/article/view/3912
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