Prevalence of Sugarcane yellow leaf virus in sugarcane producing regions in Kenya revealed by reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification method
Yellow leaf (YL) is a disease of sugarcane that is currently widespread throughout most American and Asian sugarcane-producing countries. However, its actual distribution in Africa remains largely unknown. A reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT- LAMP) assay was developed to facilitate and improve the detection of Sugarcane yellow leaf virus (SCYLV), the causal agent of YL. The RT-LAMP assay was found to be comparable with or superior to conven- tional RT-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection of SCYLV genotypes CUB and BRA in infected sugarcane ' C132-81 ' and ' SP71- 6163 ' , respectively. Additionally, 68 sugarcane samples that tested neg- ative by RT-PCR were found positive by RT-LAMP, whereas the RT-LAMP assay failed to detect SCYLV in only 5 samples that tested positive by RT-PCR. Combining RT-PCR and RT-LAMP data enabled the detection of SCYLV in 86 of 183 Kenyan sugarcane plants, indicat- ing high SCYLV prevalence throughout the country (ranging from 36 to 64% in individual counties). Seminested PCR assays were developed that enabled the amplification of a fragment encompassing the capsid protein coding region gene and its flanking 5 ¢ and 3 ¢ genomic regions. Sequences of this fragment for four Kenyan SCYLV isolates indicated that they shared 99.2 to 99.6% pairwise identity with one another and clearly clus- tered phylogenetically with SCYLV-BRA genotype isolates. To our knowledge, this is the first report of SCYLV in Kenya.
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | H20 - Maladies des plantes, F30 - Génétique et amélioration des plantes, U30 - Méthodes de recherche, Saccharum officinarum, virus des végétaux, variété, technique analytique, PCR, test biologique, Transcription génique, identification, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6727, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5985, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8157, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1513, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_34079, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_15731, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_35128, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3791, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4086, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/579769/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/579769/1/Amata%20et%20al.SCYLV%20LAMP_2016.pdf |
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