菊欧文氏菌分子检测技术的研究

 蝴蝶兰细菌性软腐病对蝴蝶兰的生长危害严重, Erwinia chrysanthemi(菊欧文氏菌)、Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora(胡萝卜软腐欧文氏菌胡萝卜软腐亚种)是引起蝴蝶兰软腐病的主要病原细菌, 其中E.chrysanthemi被列入我国三类检疫性有害生物。本文对菊欧文氏菌分子检测技术进行了研究, 设计出针对该病原细菌的特异性引物, 应用实时荧光PCR方法检测样品中存在的菊欧文氏菌, 检测灵敏度达到10²cfu/mL。     

栽培措施对彩色马蹄莲细菌性软腐病发生的影响

以彩色马蹄莲的红色品种(M5)和黄色品种(M13)为供试材料,研究了不同栽培基质、覆盖方式、施肥种类、施肥方法等因素对彩色马蹄莲细菌性软腐病发生的影响。研究结果表明:栽培基质的不同对细菌性软腐病的发病率影响显著,用泥炭作基质能降低发病率。栽培基质表面覆盖与否和覆盖材料的不同对细菌性软腐病的发病率高低影响较大,栽培基质表面覆盖麦草发病率最低。不同的追肥时间和肥料种类的处理显示,在营养生长时期追肥和施用高钾肥也可以有效地降低彩色马蹄莲软腐病的发生率,开花期追肥和施用氮肥则有利于彩色马蹄莲软腐病的发生。     

几种化学物质诱导彩色马蹄莲对软腐病抗性的研究

本试验测定了纳米硅、草酸、硅酸钠和硫酸亚铁4种化学物质在不同浓度下对彩色马蹄莲软腐病菌的室内抑菌活性和诱导抗病效果。结果表明,硫酸亚铁3种浓度对彩色马蹄莲软腐病菌均表现较强的抑制作用;1 g/L纳米硅、0.15 g/L草酸和0.2 g/L硅酸钠3种化学物质对软腐病菌无明显抑制作用且诱导抗病效果较好,分别达到62.28%、77.56%、88.46%;经3种化学物质诱导处理后再进行接种,诱导处理和接种期间彩色马蹄莲叶片组织内过氧化物酶(POD)、苯丙氨酸解氨酶(PAL)、多酚氧化酶(PPO)酶活性均高于对照,其中硅酸钠处理后彩色马蹄莲叶片组织内POD、PAL活性高于纳米硅和草酸处理,草酸处理后叶片组织内PPO活性高于纳米硅和硅酸钠处理。     

Ca2+,Mn2+等8种金属离子对软腐欧文氏菌一些致病因子的影响

 在离体试验中,不同金属离子对马铃薯软腐欧文氏菌(Erwinia carotovora subsp.carotovora)菌株StEcc-12生长,产生胞外酶和胞外酶活性具有不同的影响。在含果胶酸钠的培养液中,Ca²⁺促进生长,并使培养液中的果胶裂解酶(PL)、果胶水解酶(PG)和蛋白酶3种胞外酶分别提高1.4~23.4倍,0.3~2.9倍和0.7~6.5倍。Mn²⁺对StEcc-12生长及产生3种胞外酶的影响与Ca²⁺相似。Ni²⁺显著抑制细菌的生长,但在含Ni²⁺培养液中3种胞外酶的单位活性比对照高1.7倍以上。在酶粗提液中分别加入上述3种离子对PL酶的活性均有抑制作用。Zn²⁺对细菌生长没有显著影响,高浓度Al³⁺抑制细菌生长,这2种离子均能促进3种胞外酶的产生。随着Fe²⁺和K⁺浓度的增高,细菌生长减少,两种果胶酶产量降低,蛋白酶产量增加,粗提液中PL酶活性下降。Mg²⁺对细菌生长和胞外PG产生没有明显影响,提高Mg²⁺浓度有利于PL的产生。酶粗提液中加入Mg²⁺后PL活性增高。所有以上离子都能使聚半乳糖醛酸发生不同程度的凝聚,但只有Ca²⁺和Mg²⁺的有效凝聚浓度与薯块的实际浓度接近。     

小麦印度腥黑穗病菌PCR检测

应用PCR方法对小麦印度腥黑穗病菌及其近似种或相关种包括黑麦草腥黑粉菌、狼尾草腥黑粉菌、水稻腥黑粉菌等10种腥黑粉菌共14个菌株进行了检测研究。根据线粒体DNA的序列分别设计了扩增小麦印度腥黑穗病菌的特异性引物和扩增黑麦草腥黑粉菌的特异性引物，根据核糖体内转录区（ITS）DNA片段设计了扩增腥黑粉菌属真菌的引物，应用PCR方法能将小麦印度腥黑穗病菌与黑麦草腥黑粉菌及其它近似种或相关种加以区分。本方法稳定、可靠、重复性强，已分别在不同实验室的不同型号PCR仪上得到验证。     

苜蓿黄萎病菌实时荧光PCR检测方法

苜蓿黄萎病菌(Verticillium albo-atrum)能够危害多种重要的农艺和园艺作物,是我国重要检疫性有害生物。本研究根据V.albo-atrum的ITS基因序列,结合张正光设计的引物Vaa-1和Vaa-2,设计一条TaqMan探针Vaa-probe,研究实时荧光PCR的检测方法,以更加快速、灵敏的检测出V.albo-atrum。利用该方法可检测到含V.albo-atrumDNA浓度0.0005 ng/μL以上的样品,大大提高了检测的灵敏度。     

蚜虫共生细菌多重PCR检测体系的建立

蚜虫中具有多种共生菌,使用常规PCR对它们进行检测,耗时耗力,而多重PCR可以更加高效地进行多种细菌的检测。沃尔巴克氏菌Wolbachia pipientis、杀雄菌属共生菌Arsenophonus和蚜虫U型共生菌Regiella insecticola是蚜虫中常见的3种共生菌。本研究针对沃尔巴克氏菌、杀雄菌属共生菌和蚜虫U型共生菌,分别选择以wsp基因、yaeT基因和gltA基因作为靶标,进行了多重PCR引物的设计和扩增体系的优化。结果显示,本研究建立的多重PCR体系在检测3种蚜虫常见共生菌时,具有较高的扩增特异性、准确性和直观性及较高的检测灵敏度,共生菌的最低检测浓度为104拷贝/μL,远低于共生菌在蚜虫1龄若虫总DNA中的浓度(108拷贝/μL),可以完全满足蚜虫共生菌检测工作的需要。     

应用PCR技术检测玉米中的禾谷镰刀菌

本实验通过用PCR方法来实现对禾谷镰刀菌的快速检测,经对霉变玉米样品、玉米茎腐病组织及玉米穗腐病标本的检测,证明该方法是一种高效、灵敏的方法,具有重要的实际应用价值.     

丁香疫霉病菌PCR和实时荧光PCR检测

 为了快速、准确地检测丁香疫霉病菌 (Phytophthora syringae, PSY),根据GeneBank中PSY的ITS序列设计特异引物Psy1/Psy2和探针P-Psy,建立了常规PCR和实时荧光PCR检测方法。利用引物Psy1/Psy2扩增供试的26株PSY能得到585 bp的预期目标条带,但扩增其它61个非PSY供试菌株不能得到预期产物,检测灵敏度为12 pg菌丝DNA;探针P-Psy对供试26株PSY表现为阳性扩增,而对其它菌株和空白对照均表现为阴性扩增,检测灵敏度可达120 fg菌丝DNA,比常规PCR高100倍;引物Psy1/Psy2和探针P-Psy对5 g土壤中PSY卵孢子的检测灵敏度分别为20 000个和200个。样品检测试验表明两种PCR方法可用于口岸植物检疫中快速、准确和特异地检测丁香疫霉病菌。     

套式PCR直接检测印度腥黑穗病菌冬孢子

用印度腥黑穗病菌冬孢子制备模板DNA ,利用印腥特异性引物T3 /T6,T3 /T4和套式PCR(nestPCR)扩增技术直接检测印腥冬孢子 ,检测的灵敏度可达 1个冬孢子。检测时间缩短为 1天。这种简单、快速、灵敏、实用和准确的PCR检测技术适用于口岸印腥检疫的需要 ,解决了常规PCR检测中DNA制备需要萌发冬孢子和检测时间长的难题。     

胡萝卜软腐欧氏杆菌胡萝卜亚种游动性突变体的筛选

 用转座子Tn5对胡萝卜软腐欧氏杆菌胡萝卜亚种(Erwinia carotovora subsp.carotovora,Ecc)进行诱变,获得9个游动性改变了的突变体。M432游动性变大;M143、M451和M574游动性完全丧失;M43、M49、M330、M725和M726游动性较野生型变小。这9个突变体在大白菜叶柄上的致病力均减弱。游动性变小或丧失的突变体鞭毛数目减少或未发现有鞭毛。     

Flagella-mediated motility is required for biofilm formation by Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora

To elucidate the role of flagella in biofilm formation by Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora EC1, we used a nonflagellate, nonmotile mutant (ΔfliC) and a flagellate, nonmotile mutant (ΔmotA). A biofilm-inducing medium, which contains the yeast peptone (YP) medium plus the salts of M-63 minimal medium, supported biofilm formation to a greater extent than either the YP or Luria Bertani (LB) medium alone. We demonstrated that both the ΔfliC and ΔmotA mutants greatly reduced their ability to form a biofilm on the surface of the wells of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) microtiter plates. The inability of both mutants to form biofilm on the PVC surface was further confirmed with phase-contrast microscopy. Both aflagellate (ΔfliC) and flagellate (ΔmotA) nonmotile mutants were equally defective in attachment to the PVC surface. The treatment of bacteria with the protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP), which inhibits the motility of this organism, reduced greatly the biofilm formation. Based on these results, flagella-mediated motility may play an important role in biofilm formation of E. carotovora subsp. carotovora EC1.     

Verification of immunofluorescence colony-staining of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica by reisolation and immunodiffusion or PCR

In this study, the reliability and efficiency of three procedures for verification of IFC-positive colonies of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica were compared: (1) PCR amplification, (2) reisolation on a non-selective medium (trypticase soy agar) followed by direct immunodiffusion (TSA-DID), developed for isolation of target and cross-reacting bacteria, and (3) reisolation on a selective medium (crystal-violet pectate) and characterization of selected isolates with Ouchterlony double diffusion (DLCVP-ODD), developed for isolation of pectinolytic Erwinia spp. The reliability of a PCR amplification procedure for characterization of E.c. atroseptica was evaluated. Specific amplification products could be produced from DNA of all 187 European strains of the bacterium, while no amplification products were obtained from DNA of four distinctive serological groups of bacteria cross-reacting with antibodies against E.c. atroseptica , nor from DNA of randomly selected saprophytic bacteria isolated from potato peel extracts. All 60 immunofluorescent-positive target colonies from a potato peel extract with added E.c. atroseptica tested were positive by PCR compared with 68 and 72% successful determinations by TSA-DID and DLCVP-ODD, respectively. PCR enabled verification of fluorescent colonies from IFC preparations of naturally infected seed lots with an efficiency of 93%, compared with 48 and 71% successful determinations by TSA-DID and DLCVP-ODD, respectively. It is concluded that PCR is useful for routine confirmation of the identity of fluorescent colonies in IFC.     

Detection of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica and Erwinia chrysanthemi in potato tubers using polymerase chain reaction

Soft rot erwiniae are a group of notorious plant pathogens for which currently available detection methods are inadequate. Based on the polymerase chain reaction, specific and sensitive detection of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica and E. chrysanthemi in potato tubers has been achieved. The composition of the PCR primers used in two specific detection systems is based on identification of the consensus of sequences of metalloprotease-coding genes present in soft rot erwiniae. Bacterial DNA was extracted from the potato tuber matrix by differential centrifugation in order to avoid interference of potato-derived compounds with the performance of the PCR assay. The PCR assay jjerformed with the E. carotovora subsp. atroseptica specific primer set was found to be capable of distinguishing E. carotovora subsp. atroseptica from all other Erwinia species and the closely related subspecies E. carotovora subsp. carotovora. With the E. chrysanthemi specific primer set, agarose gel electrophoresis is required for unequivocal differentiation between E. chrysanthemi and other erwiniae. Combined with the efficient extraction procedure, the assay allowed specific detection of less than 10³ culturable erwiniae per tuber. The specificity and sensitivity of the assay were not reduced in the presence of a 100-fold excess of DNA from both related and unrelated bacteria. This PCR-based method for detection of erwiniae in potato tubers provides a relatively fast and sensitive alternative to routinely applied serological methods.     

兰花褐斑病菌实时荧光PCR检测

兰花褐斑病菌(Acidovorax avenaesubsp.cattleyae)是兰花上一种重要进境检疫性有害生物,可通过植株和种子远距离传播,其传染性强,对兰花危害性大。根据核糖体ITS序列设计了TaqMan-MGB探针并建立了实时荧光PCR检测方法。该方法能够特异性检测兰花褐斑病菌,所有供试的目标菌株检测结果均为阳性,而其它28个对照菌株(含同属内其它种及avenae种下其它亚种)均为阴性。利用该方法从发病兰花植株总DNA中检测到该病菌。本方法灵敏度高,检测极限达9×10-9μg DNA,操作方便快速,结果可靠,适合于口岸兰花的进出境检疫及兰花种苗健康质量控制。     

进境兰花褐斑病菌的分离及PCR鉴定

兰花褐斑病（Acidovorax avenae subsp. cattleyae）是兰花上一种很重要的细菌性病害.在检疫监管中,对进境文心兰（Oncidiums spp.）疑似兰花褐斑病症状的植株分离所得细菌进行过敏性坏死反应、生理生化反应的基础上,利用特异性引物和ITS通用引物进行了PCR扩增及序列分析,确认该病害为A. avenae subsp. cattleyae.此为我国首次从进境兰花中截获兰花褐斑病菌.     

Internal colonization pathways of potato plants by Erwinia carotovora ssp. atroseptica

Transmission of pectinolytic Erwinia species from infected mother tubers to daughter tubers has been studied mainly through detection tests, carried out at harvest, on limited samples of tubers produced by plants grown from artificially inoculated mother tubers. However, detection has not been performed on samples collected at different stages of crop development, in order to follow the contamination progress in different organs through the plants to the progeny tubers. In this study the bacterial contamination of progeny tubers was investigated by detecting Erwinia carotovora ssp. atroseptica in different symptomless plant organs (stolons, stems, progeny tubers) and in the parts with or without symptoms of diseased stems, collected at various stages of crop development. Infection levels in below- and above-ground organs of plants of two cultivars differing in their resistance to Erwinia, infected by either vacuum infiltration or sand wounding, were monitored throughout the growing season and at harvest using DAS-ELISA and PCR. Detection tests showed that healthy organs from symptomless plants were less frequently contaminated than symptomless organs from diseased plants, and that stolons were precociously and more frequently contaminated than stems and daughter tubers, irrespective of the health of the plant. Stem infections were shown to progress latently in the stem, bacteria usually being recovered 10–15 cm past visible lesions. In many cases, typical aerial stem-rot symptoms could be related to this upward movement of bacteria from the infected mother tuber. Daughter tubers without symptoms were shown to be frequently contaminated, usually at heel ends, suggesting internal contamination from mother tuber to progeny.     

Characterisation of Erwinia carotovora subspecies and detection of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica in potato plants, soil and water extracts with PCR-based methods

A PCR-RFLP test based on a pectate-lyase encoding gene permits the detection of several Erwinia carotovora subspecies, but requires complete DNA extraction. This paper reports on the suitability of a simplified PCR-RFLP protocol to characterise E. carotovora strains and on the performance of PCR, using the same primers, to detect the atroseptica subspecies in substrates of epidemiological significance. A collection of 140 strains from various hosts and geographical origins was characterised for biochemical traits and PCR-RFLPs. PCR performed on boiled bacterial suspensions yielded an amplification product of 434 bp in 109 of the 140 strains. None of the E. carotovora subsp. betavasculorum strains was amplified, even after complete DNA extraction. RFLPs of the PCR product yielded 24 groups, 3 of which were new. Twenty one groups were specific to one subspecies. Several strains biochemically similar to E. carotovora subsp. atroseptica, but growing at 37 °C, showed PCR-RFLP profiles characteristic of E. carotovora subsp. carotovora. Phenetic and cladistic analyses gave three main domains, not strictly related to hosts or geographical origins. The atroseptica (RFLP groups 1 and 2) and wasabiae (group 21) subspecies constituted one of the domains, despite clustering distantly from one another. Host specialisation and molecular homogeneity suggest a clonal structure within these subspecies. Conversely, E. carotovora subsp. odorifera, despite its limited host range and geographical distribution, and E. carotovora subsp. carotovora showed great molecular diversity, spreading respectively across five and 19 RFLP groups. These two subspecies shared RFLP groups 4, 5 and 6. The tree nodes in the phenograms showed a low robustness when bootstrapping the data matrix. PCR coupled with a 48h enrichment step in a polypectate-rich medium improved detection thresholds of E. carotovora subsp. atroseptica (1.5.10²- 1.5.10³ bacteria/ml in leaves, stems, and tuber peel extracts to 4.10⁷ bacteria/ml in wash water) relative to either immunomagnetic separation coupled with PCR or DAS-ELISA (2.10⁵ in plant samples to 2.10⁷ bacteria/ml in wash water).