Detection of Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum in drain water based on concentration,enrichment and the use of a duplex TaqMan PCR test

The Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) can cause bacterial wilt in a wide variety of plant species, including a number of ornamental glasshouse crops. Recently in Europe, ornamental rose plants for the production of cut flowers and propagation materials have been strongly affected by Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum, phylotype I, biovar 3. To test for the presence of the pathogen in the glasshouse, sampling of water from a drainage gutter or well may be an efficient strategy since it is known that RSSC can be released from infected root systems in the water. A protocol was developed to detect low densities of R. pseudosolanacearum in drain water collected from rose growers. Drain water was filtered through a bacterial filter, the filtrate was collected and target bacteria enriched for 48 h in Semi-selective Medium South Africa (SMSA) broth supplemented with sterilized tomato plant extracts. DNA extracted from the enrichment broth was analysed using a TaqMan test in a duplex format, based on specific egl sequences of RSSC and the use of an extraction and amplification control. The optimized protocol had a detection level of ≤1–10 colony forming units of R. pseudosolanacearum in drain water.     

PM 7/21 (2) Ralstonia solanacearum,R. pseudosolanacearum and R. syzygii (Ralstonia solanacearum species complex)

Specific scope

This Standard describes a diagnostic protocol for Ralstonia solanacearum, Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum and Ralstonia syzygii, i.e. phylotype/sequevar strain in the Ralstonia solanacearum Species Complex (RSSC). 1 It should be used in conjunction with PM 7/76 Use of EPPO diagnostic protocols.

Specific approval and amendment

Approved in 2003‐09. First revised in 2018‐02.     

植物青枯菌噬菌体保存方法的研究

噬菌体可用于防治植物青枯病,但不易保存.本文对青枯病菌短尾噬菌体P1、P2、P3和P4株系的保存方法和条件进行了研究;将各噬菌体原液、噬菌体原液∶青枯菌液=1∶1、噬菌体原液∶青枯菌液∶40％甘油=1∶1∶2、噬菌体原液∶青枯菌液∶80％甘油=1∶1∶2的处理分别置于-75、-25、4℃、室温下保存,再分别于90、18...     

Effect of a Soil Amendment on the Survival of Ralstonia solanacearum in Different Soils

ABSTRACT The effect of a soil amendment (SA) composed of urea (200 kg of N per ha) and CaO (5,000 kg/ha) on the survival of Ralstonia solanacearum in four Philippine soils was investigated in a series of laboratory experiments. Within 3 weeks after application, the SA either caused an initial decrease, a final decline, or no change in the pathogen population, depending on the particular soil type. An initial decrease occurred in a soil with a basic pH and resulted in a significantly (P < 0.001) lower pathogen population immediately and at 1 week after amending the soil. This decrease was probably due to the high pH in the soil during urea hydrolysis. A final decline in the R. solanacearum population after 3 weeks occurred in two soils in which nitrite accumulated after 1 week. In these soils, no decline in bacterial levels occurred when nitrite formation was inhibited by 2-chloro-6-trichloromethylpyridine. In the soil with low pH, no nitrite accumulated and the R. solanacearum population did not decline. The suppressive effects of pH and nitrite on R. solanacearum growth were confirmed by in vitro experiments. Ammonium reduced the growth of R. solanacearum, but was not suppressive. Interactions of pH with ammonium and nitrite also occurred, whereby ammonium reduced growth of R. solanacearum only at pH 9 and nitrite was suppressive only at pH 5. Nitrate had no effect on R. solanacearum growth in vitro.     

Factors influencing Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum infection incidence and disease development in rose plants

Glasshouse experiments were conducted to study infection and disease development in rockwool-grown rose plants inoculated with Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum. A R. pseudosolanacearum strain isolated from rose plants was more aggressive than strains from anthurium or curcuma. The three rose cultivars tested, Avalanche, Red Naomi, and Armando, differed in susceptibility. At 20°C, the rose strain caused hardly any symptoms over a 6-week period, whereas at 28°C typical wilt symptoms were observed within 2 weeks after stem inoculation of Armando, the most susceptible cultivar. Inoculating roots with the rose strain resulted only in weak atypical symptoms. Nevertheless, inoculating roots of cv. Armando at a relatively low inoculum dose of 10⁴ cfu/ml led to high densities in the base of stems in one out of two experiments. R. pseudosolanacearum occasionally spread from stem inoculated plants with symptoms in rockwool slabs. This limited spread resulted in a low infection incidence, and only of plants directly adjacent to the plants with symptoms.     

Pathogenicity evaluation of Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum race 4 on ginger by leaf-clipping inoculation

Journal of General Plant Pathology - An easy, rapid method has been needed to test the pathogenicity of strains of Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum, the cause of serious bacterial wilt on ginger...     

辣椒青枯病拮抗菌株的筛选及田间防效的测定

用抑菌圈－定殖力双重测定法筛选出6个定殖密度大于10^5cfu/g根，抑菌能力亦较强，同时又极易于人工培养的菌株，作为青枯病的潜在生防菌株。温室试验，防病效果分别达83.4%(J2)、91.6%(J3)、58.4%(FH17）、75.0%(BB11)、66.6％（BT4）和41.6%（BT6），增产效果为21.3%-110.1%，其中以J3增产效果最为显著，BB11次之。1996年在南京和淮阴两地的辣椒青枯病小区进行试验，移栽40d后各菌株平均防效分别为：66.0%(J2)、61.6%(J3)、58.2%(FH17)、62.4%(BB11)、72.8%(BT4)和37.1%(BT6);平均增产效果为45.7%(J2)、76.5%(J3)、32.4%(FH17)、78.5%(BB11)、29.3%(BT4)和19.0%(BT6)。     

假茄科雷尔氏菌引起向日葵青枯病在中国的首次报道

茄科雷尔氏菌复合种侵染引起的青枯病是众多作物上的毁灭性病害。2020年笔者首次在广东省东莞市发现向日葵青枯病,并对其病原菌进行了鉴定。室内人工接种试验、16S rDNA序列比对和演化型鉴定结果表明,引起向日葵青枯病的病原菌为假茄科雷尔氏菌Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum。生理生化特性和致病性鉴定结果表明,分离自向日葵的15株假茄科雷尔氏菌为1号生理小种和生化变种3。egl基因部分序列系统进化分析表明,15株假茄科雷尔氏菌分属4个序列变种,其中8株菌株为序列变种17,5株菌株为序列变种13,其余2株菌株分别为序列变种14和序列变种54。本文是我国首次报道假茄科雷尔氏菌侵染引起向日葵青枯病。     

Diversity of Ralstonia solanacearum Infecting Eggplant in the Philippines

ABSTRACT The diversity of Ralstonia solanacearum strains isolated from eggplant (Solanum melongena) grown in five provinces of the Philippine island group of Luzon was assessed using a recently described hierarchical system. All strains keyed to race 1, biovar 3 or 4. Phylotype-specific multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) indicated that, like most other strains of Asian origin, all the strains in our Philippine collection belong to phylotype I. Taxometric and phylogenetic analyses of partial endoglucanase gene sequences of strains from this collection and those previously deposited into GenBank revealed at least four subgroups among the otherwise monophyletic phylotype I strains. Nucleotide polymorphisms within each subgroup were infrequent and, among the subgroups identified in this study, variation was always <1.3%, indicating that the large majority of strains could be assigned to a single sequevar. Genomic DNA fingerprinting using enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-PCR revealed additional fine-scale genetic variation that was consistent with the endogluconase sequence data. Whole-pattern and band-based analyses of the genomic fingerprint data revealed four and eight distinct genotypes, respectively, within our collection. Eggplant from infested fields in different provinces tended to harbor mixed populations of ERIC genotypes, with the predominant genotype varying by location.     

Detection of Ralstonia solanacearum by loop-mediated isothermal amplification

Ralstonia solanacearum is a pathogenic bacterium that causes wilt in over 200 plant species. Here we report a rapid and sensitive detection of R. solanacearum using an isothermal method for copying DNA known as loop-mediated amplification (LAMP). A set of four primers was designed to replicate the gene coding for the flagellar subunit, fliC, and conditions for detection were optimized to complete in 60 min at 65 degrees C. Magnesium pyrophosphate resulting from the amplification reaction could be detected optically as an increase in the solution turbidity, and the DNA products spread in a reproducible ladder-like banding pattern after electrophoresis in an agarose gel. Replication of the fliC gene was detected only from R. solanacearum. The detection limit of this LAMP assay was between 10(4) to 10(6) colony forming units/ml, and the technique may be useful for developing rapid and sensitive detection methods for the R. solanacearum pathogen in soil and water.     

番茄青枯病内生拮抗细菌的筛选

 从广西一些市县采集番茄茎标本分离得到55个细菌菌株,分属为芽孢杆菌(Bacillus spp.)、黄单胞菌(Xanthomonas spp.)、假单胞菌(Pseudomonas spp.)和欧文氏菌(Erwinia spp.),其中芽孢杆菌为优势种群。经回接测试,有36个菌株为番茄植株内生菌。这些内生菌只有7个菌株对番茄青枯病菌有拮抗作用,芽孢杆菌B₄₇菌株对番茄青枯病菌拮抗作用较强,经室内和田间初步防治测定,它对番茄青枯病有较好的防治效果。     

Validation of four real‐time TaqMan PCRs for the detection of Ralstonia solanacearum and/or Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum and/or Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus in potato tubers using a statistical regression approach

A new DNA extraction method and a new multiplex real‐time TaqMan PCR test for detection of Ralstonia solanacearum, Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum and Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus in asymptomatic potato tubers are presented. This new multiplex PCR and three published TaqMan PCRs for detection of R. solanacearum and/or R. pseudosolanacearum and/or R. syzygii spp. and/or C. michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus were validated using linear regression analysis for estimating the Ct values and its variation at 5 × 10³ bacteria mL^?1. The three published PCRs that have been validated are Massart et al. (2014, detecting R. solanacearum and C. michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus), Weller et al. (1999, detecting R. solanacearum, R. pseudosolanacearum and R. syzygii spp.) and Gudmestad et al. (2009, detecting C. michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus). All tested PCRs were fit for purpose for their target organisms. The PCR tests have different target genes, allowing one of the sets to be used as first screening test and another as second screening test for the detection of R. solanacearum and/or R. pseudosolanacearum and/or C. michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus in asymptomatic potato tubers.     

青枯雷尔氏菌胞外蛋白指纹多态性分析

 采用SDS-PAGE技术对70株不同来源及致病力青枯雷尔氏菌（Ralstonia solanacearum）进行胞外蛋白指纹多态性分析,研究结果表明,供试青枯雷尔氏菌菌株呈现丰富的胞外蛋白指纹多态性,多态性比率为100%。不同来源青枯雷尔氏菌分泌的胞外蛋白不同,EZ-Tn5TM插入诱变菌株电泳出20条不同大小蛋白条带,分子量集中在20~97 kD ,且菌株间蛋白条带相似或完全相同;60Co辐射诱变菌株共电泳出16条不同大小的蛋白条带,多数蛋白分子量44.3 kD;野生型菌株电泳的蛋白条带最多,共获得26条不同大小的蛋白条带。进一步对37株不同致病力的野生型菌株进行胞外蛋白含量测定,结果表明,不同致病力菌株胞外蛋白含量差异大,强致病力菌株分泌的胞外蛋白含量较高,为1.026～5.963μg/mL,无致病力菌株胞外蛋白含量较低,为0.083～0.761 μg/mL。     

Genetic Diversity of Japanese Strains of Ralstonia solanacearum

ABSTRACT The genetic diversity of 74 Japanese strains of Ralstonia solanacearum was assessed by pathogenicity tests and the repetitive sequencebased polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR) fingerprint method. Based on their genomic fingerprints, biovar N2 strains were divided into two distinct groups, one consisting of potato isolates belonging to race 3, and the other consisting of tomato, eggplant, pepper, and tobacco isolates belonging to race 1. Biovar 3 strains had low average similarity and were divided into five groups that differed in original host or pathogenicity. Biovar 4 strains consisted of only one group at the 80% similarity level. Comparative analysis of the rep-PCR fingerprints of 78 strains, including six biovars from Japan and various countries, revealed two main clusters. Cluster 1 comprised all biovar 3, 4, and 5 strains, biovar 1 strains from Reunion, and some biovar N2 strains from Japan. Cluster 2 included most of the biovar 1, 2, and N2 strains. The fingerprints showed low average similarity with biovar N2 strains from Japan and Brazil.     

大蒜根系分泌物对烟草青枯病的影响

为探讨大蒜根系分泌物对烟草青枯病菌的抑菌活性,采用抑菌圈法和盆栽试验研究了大蒜根系分泌物及其主要成分对烟草青枯病的影响。结果表明：大蒜根系分泌物浓度为1g/mL时,对烟草青枯病菌抑制效果最好,其抑菌率为53.67%。大蒜根系分泌物4种成分的抑菌效果由强到弱依次为：2,6-二异丙基苯酚>二烯丙基二硫>2,6-二叔丁基对甲酚>邻苯二甲酸二丁酯。其中,2,6-二异丙基酚对烟草青枯病菌的抑制作用最强,在1和5mmol/L时的抑菌率分别为99.66%和100.00%;在盆栽试验中也具有较好的防治效果,接种后7 d和14 d后,其防效分别为34.75%和31.35%。因此,大蒜根系分泌物及其成分均对烟草青枯病有明显的抑制作用。本研究揭示了大蒜作为轮作或间作作物对烟草青枯病的防控机理,以及大蒜根系分泌物和2,6-二异丙基酚作为烟草青枯病防治剂的潜力。     

烟草感染青枯菌后的组织病理变化

病症观察表明,烟草感染青枯菌后168h叶片全部萎蔫下垂、褐变。茎部切片表明,青枯菌处理72h,个别导管内出现了染色较深的物质,髓部和皮层的部分薄壁细胞出现破损。120h后导管内染色较深的物质增多,导管堵塞程度加大。168h后局部区域的木质部和韧皮部分离。对感病植株的叶进行青枯病菌分离,结果表明:从叶中可分离出致病青枯菌,并可以导致复感植株得病继而死亡。     

广东茄科青枯菌致病力分化及其DNA多态性分析

 分别采自广州、增城、东莞、花都、三水、清远、电白、高要8个菜区的番茄、茄子和辣椒上的31个青枯病菌株,经人工接种于10个鉴别寄主植物上,结果表明,它们的致病力存在明显的差异。聚类分析这31个菌株,可以聚为3个组:第I组菌株主要来自种植番茄和茄子历史较长的广州、东莞、增城老菜区,其致病力较强;第Ⅱ组菌株主要分离自茄子和辣椒上,其致病力中等;第Ⅲ组菌株主要来自近年来新发展的三水市各番茄产区,它们的致病力较弱。从200个随机引物中筛选出17个引物用于上述31个菌株DNA的RAPD分析,共扩增出523条带,其中468条为多态性带,占89.5%。聚类分析这31个菌株,又可聚为4个簇群:第I簇群主要分离自已推广种植多年的丰顺、金丰等抗病番茄品种上;第Ⅱ簇群分离自抗病的番茄新品种新星、年丰和石碣紫红茄上;第IV簇群主要分离自辣椒和茄子;而第Ⅲ簇群来源包括番茄、茄子和辣椒这3种寄主植物。上述试验结果说明,广东茄科青枯菌的致病力存在明显的分化现象,其DNA存在较高的遗传多样性。     

Situation of Ralstonia solanacearum in the EPPO region in 1997

In the early 1990s, Ralstonia solanacearum , an EPPO A2 quarantine pest which previously occurred only sporadically in some of the southern Member Countries, caused a number of outbreaks of potato brown rot over a wider area in the EPPO region. The National Plant Protection Organizations of the EPPO Member Countries concerned have taken action to eradicate the pest, and in particular the European Union has taken joint action through a Control Directive. Eradication has been successful in many cases, but is complicated by the fact that R. solanacearum can persist on wild Solanum dulcamara and be dispersed by water. EPPO has collected information from its Member Countries through the period of the outbreaks and eradication, and presents in this article an overall view and a detailed country-by-country situation.