Korean Journal Plant Pathology (한국식물병리학회지)

The Korean Society of Plant Pathology (한국식물병리학회)
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Specific Detection of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora by DNA Probe Selected from PCR Polymorphic Bands

PCR다형성 밴드 유래 DNA probe에 의한 Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora 특이적 검출

  • Kang, Hee-Wan (National Institute of Agricultural Science & Techology, RDA) ;
  • Go, Seung-Joo (National Institute of Agricultural Science & Techology, RDA) ;
  • Kwon, Soon-Wo (National Institute of Agricultural Science & Techology, RDA)
  • Published : 1998.04.01
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Abstract

This study was carried out to develop DNA probe for specific detection of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora. Universal rice primer (URP, 20 mer) developed from repetitive sequence of rice was applied for producing PCR DNA fingerprints of Erwinis spp. In E. carotovora subsp. carotovora strains, primer URP2F amplyfied polymorphic bands which are distinguisable from other Erwinia spp. A PCR band of 0.6 kb selected from PCr polymorphic bands of E. carotovora subsp. carotovora strains was cloned and evaluated as a diagnostic DNA probe. Among 28 bacterial strains including 22 Erwinia spp, the probe (pECC2F) only hybridized to total DNAs from e. carotovora subsp. carotovora strains and E. carotovora subsp. wasabiae, but sizes of hybridized bands were different between these subspecies, 10.0 kb and 3.5 kb respectively. In dot blot assays using probe pECC2F, as few as 103 colony forming units (CFU) of E. carotovora subsp. carotovora could be detected in a suspension containing about 1$\times$103 CFU of soil bacteria.

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