Wheat blast,caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum(MoT)pathotype,is a devastating disease persistent in South America and Bangladesh.Since MoT generally fails to cause visual symptoms in wheat until the head...Wheat blast,caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum(MoT)pathotype,is a devastating disease persistent in South America and Bangladesh.Since MoT generally fails to cause visual symptoms in wheat until the heading stage when the infection would have advanced,disease control by fungicide application solely based on the detection of visual symptoms is ineffective.To develop an accurate and sensitive method to detect MoT at the seedling and vegetative stages for disease control,we sequenced the genomes of two MoT isolates from Brazil and identified two DNA fragments,MoT-6098 and MoT-6099,that are present in the MoT genome but not in the genome of the rice-infecting Magnaporthe oryzae Oryzae(MoO)pathotype.Using polymerase chain reaction(PCR),we confirmed the specificity of the two markers in 53 MoT and MoO isolates from South America and Bangladesh.To test the efficiency of the two markers,we first established a loop-mediated isothermal amplification(LAMP)method to detect MoT at isothermal conditions,without the use of a PCR machine.Following this,we used the Cas12a protein and guide RNAs(gRNAs)to target the MoT-6098 and MoT-6099 sequences.The activated Cas12a showed indiscriminate single-stranded deoxyribonuclease(ssDNase)activity.We then combined targetdependent Cas12a ssDNase activation with recombinase polymerase amplification(RPA)and nucleic acid lateral flow immunoassay(NALFIA)to develop a method that accurately,sensitively,and cost-effectively detects MoT-specific DNA sequences in infected wheat plants.This novel technique can be easily adapted for the rapid detection of wheat blast and other important plant diseases in the field.展开更多
采用核酸适配体作为特异性识别元件,SYBR Green I(SGI)荧光染料为信号输出单元,构建了黄曲霉毒素B_1(AFB_1)生物传感器,并对试验条件进行了优化。优化的试验条件如下:适配体互补链与适配体的物质的量比为1.5,SGI加入量为10μL,适配体双...采用核酸适配体作为特异性识别元件,SYBR Green I(SGI)荧光染料为信号输出单元,构建了黄曲霉毒素B_1(AFB_1)生物传感器,并对试验条件进行了优化。优化的试验条件如下:适配体互补链与适配体的物质的量比为1.5,SGI加入量为10μL,适配体双链与SGI的作用时间为2 min,适配体与AFB_1作用时间为14 min。结果表明,在AFB_1质量浓度为0.1~1 000μg·L^(-1)时,荧光强度变化量与其质量浓度对数呈线性关系,检出限(3S/N)为0.081μg·L^(-1)。对实际玉米样品进行加标回收试验,回收率为95.2%~105%,测定值的相对标准偏差(n=7)均小于6.0%。与其他适配体传感器进行比较,该方法所构建的荧光适配体传感器对AFB_1的检测具有操作简便、检测范围宽、灵敏度高、特异性强、成本低廉等优点,适合现场快速测定。展开更多
基金The data that support the findings of this study have being submitted to GenBank and the accession numbers are JAAXMV000000000 and JAAXMU000000000.
文摘Wheat blast,caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum(MoT)pathotype,is a devastating disease persistent in South America and Bangladesh.Since MoT generally fails to cause visual symptoms in wheat until the heading stage when the infection would have advanced,disease control by fungicide application solely based on the detection of visual symptoms is ineffective.To develop an accurate and sensitive method to detect MoT at the seedling and vegetative stages for disease control,we sequenced the genomes of two MoT isolates from Brazil and identified two DNA fragments,MoT-6098 and MoT-6099,that are present in the MoT genome but not in the genome of the rice-infecting Magnaporthe oryzae Oryzae(MoO)pathotype.Using polymerase chain reaction(PCR),we confirmed the specificity of the two markers in 53 MoT and MoO isolates from South America and Bangladesh.To test the efficiency of the two markers,we first established a loop-mediated isothermal amplification(LAMP)method to detect MoT at isothermal conditions,without the use of a PCR machine.Following this,we used the Cas12a protein and guide RNAs(gRNAs)to target the MoT-6098 and MoT-6099 sequences.The activated Cas12a showed indiscriminate single-stranded deoxyribonuclease(ssDNase)activity.We then combined targetdependent Cas12a ssDNase activation with recombinase polymerase amplification(RPA)and nucleic acid lateral flow immunoassay(NALFIA)to develop a method that accurately,sensitively,and cost-effectively detects MoT-specific DNA sequences in infected wheat plants.This novel technique can be easily adapted for the rapid detection of wheat blast and other important plant diseases in the field.
