云南蔗区发现由植原体引起的检疫性病害甘蔗白叶病

A quarantining sugarcane white leaf disease caused by phytoplasma found in sugarcane field in Yunnan

By used of nested-PCR, the 16S rDNA sequence of phytoplasma associated with sugarcane white leaf (SCWL) in 48 suspected SCWL samples from Baoshan and Lincang of Yunnan were amplified with two primer pairs MLOX/ MLOY and P1/P2. The sequencing showed that the fragment size of 17 Baoshan suspected SCWL samples were all 210 bp and their sequences were all identical (GenBank: KC662509); the fragment size of 10 Lincang suspected SCWL samples were all 202 bp and their sequences were all identical (GenBank: KF431837). The Blast result indicated that the sequences obtained in this study were derived from the 16S-23S ISR intergenic spacer region of phytoplasma that causes SCWL and were highly homologous (99.05%-100% similarity) to the corresponding genome region registered in GenBank. Plant height, stalk diameter, millable stalk rate and single stalk weight were significantly reduced by infection of SCWL,which caused destructive damage to sugarcane.