Development and validation of a real-time RT-PCR assay for generic detection of pospiviroids. 2013

M Botermans, and B T L H van de Vossenberg, and J Th J Verhoeven, and J W Roenhorst, and M Hooftman, and R Dekter, and E T M Meekes
National Plant Protection Organization, Wageningen, The Netherlands. m.botermans@minlnv.nl

In many countries phytosanitary regulations apply to Potato spindle tuber viroid, because it can cause serious diseases in potato and tomato crops. Other pospiviroids, some of which are distributed widely in ornamental crops, can cause similar diseases. Consequently, there is a need for a reliable and cost-effective generic testing method. An assay was developed that detects all known species of the genus Pospiviroid, using real-time RT-PCR based on TaqMan technology. This GenPospi assay consists of two reactions running in parallel, the first targeting all pospiviroids, except Columnea latent viroid, the second specifically targeting the latter viroid (already published). To monitor the RNA extraction a nad5 internal control was included. Method validation on tomato leaves showed that the GenPospi assay detects all pospiviroids up to a relative infection rate of 0.13% (equals 770 times dilution). The assay was specific because no cross reactivity was observed with other viroids, viruses or nucleic acid from plant hosts. Repeatability and reproducibility were 100% and the assay appeared robust in an inter-laboratory comparison. The GenPospi assay has been shown to be a suitable tool for large-scale screening for all known pospiviroids. Although it has been validated for tomato leaves it can potentially be used for any crop.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D010935 Plant Diseases Diseases of plants. Disease, Plant,Diseases, Plant,Plant Disease
D010942 Plant Viruses Viruses parasitic on plants. Phytophagineae,Plant Virus,Virus, Plant,Viruses, Plant
D001483 Base Sequence The sequence of PURINES and PYRIMIDINES in nucleic acids and polynucleotides. It is also called nucleotide sequence. DNA Sequence,Nucleotide Sequence,RNA Sequence,DNA Sequences,Base Sequences,Nucleotide Sequences,RNA Sequences,Sequence, Base,Sequence, DNA,Sequence, Nucleotide,Sequence, RNA,Sequences, Base,Sequences, DNA,Sequences, Nucleotide,Sequences, RNA
D012367 RNA, Viral Ribonucleic acid that makes up the genetic material of viruses. Viral RNA
D014772 Viroids A group of pathogens comprising the smallest known agents of infectious disease. They are unencapsulated and are capable of replicating autonomously in susceptible cells. Positively identified viroids composed of single-stranded RNA have been isolated from higher plants, but the existence of DNA viroids pathogenic to animals is suspected. Viroid
D015203 Reproducibility of Results The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results. Reliability and Validity,Reliability of Result,Reproducibility Of Result,Reproducibility of Finding,Validity of Result,Validity of Results,Face Validity,Reliability (Epidemiology),Reliability of Results,Reproducibility of Findings,Test-Retest Reliability,Validity (Epidemiology),Finding Reproducibilities,Finding Reproducibility,Of Result, Reproducibility,Of Results, Reproducibility,Reliabilities, Test-Retest,Reliability, Test-Retest,Result Reliabilities,Result Reliability,Result Validities,Result Validity,Result, Reproducibility Of,Results, Reproducibility Of,Test Retest Reliability,Validity and Reliability,Validity, Face
D016415 Sequence Alignment The arrangement of two or more amino acid or base sequences from an organism or organisms in such a way as to align areas of the sequences sharing common properties. The degree of relatedness or homology between the sequences is predicted computationally or statistically based on weights assigned to the elements aligned between the sequences. This in turn can serve as a potential indicator of the genetic relatedness between the organisms. Sequence Homology Determination,Determination, Sequence Homology,Alignment, Sequence,Alignments, Sequence,Determinations, Sequence Homology,Sequence Alignments,Sequence Homology Determinations
D060888 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Methods used for detecting the amplified DNA products from the polymerase chain reaction as they accumulate instead of at the end of the reaction. Kinetic Polymerase Chain Reaction,Quantitative Real-Time PCR,Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction,Real-Time PCR,PCR, Quantitative Real-Time,PCR, Real-Time,PCRs, Quantitative Real-Time,PCRs, Real-Time,Quantitative Real Time PCR,Quantitative Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction,Quantitative Real-Time PCRs,Real Time PCR,Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction,Real-Time PCR, Quantitative,Real-Time PCRs,Real-Time PCRs, Quantitative
D020133 Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction A variation of the PCR technique in which cDNA is made from RNA via reverse transcription. The resultant cDNA is then amplified using standard PCR protocols. Polymerase Chain Reaction, Reverse Transcriptase,Reverse Transcriptase PCR,PCR, Reverse Transcriptase,Transcriptase PCR, Reverse

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