Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 206-211. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20192971

Special Issue: Potato crops Plant protection Biotechnology

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Establishment of a Multiplex RT-PCR Assay for Detection of Four Sweet Potato RNA Viruses

FENG Liting, ZHANG Jianfeng , CHI Shengqi   

  1. College of Plant Health & Medicine,Qingdao Agricultural University,Qingdao 266109,China
  • Received:2022-02-22 Published:2022-08-28
  • Contact: ZHANG Jianfeng, CHI Shengqi

Abstract:

A multiplex RT-PCR detection system was established and studied to target four sweet potato RNA viruses,Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV),Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV), Sweet potato virus G (SPVG)and Sweet potato virus C (SPVC),which caused serious damage in sweet potato production. Firstly,the specific primers for four viruses were designed by Premier 5.0 software and synthesized according to the conserved sequences of coat protein(CP)gene of these viruses from GenBank. The cDNA synthesized was used as a template,and 4 couples of selected primers were used simultaneously to amplify the target fragments by PCR. A best multiplex RT-PCR reaction system was tested by optimizing the annealing temperature,extension time,dNTPs amount,template amount,primer concentration and so on and an optimal quadruple RT-PCR system that could simultaneously detect these four sweet potato RNA viruses was established. The results showed that an accurate and sensitive multiplex RT-PCR method for detecting the four sweet potato viruses mentioned above with respective target band had been successfully established by challenge tests in which there would be no crossover among the virus primers. The multiplex RT-PCR method established in this study could detect four kinds of sweet potato virus at the same time. It was not only accurate and sensitive,but also reduced the cost of detection and improved the efficiency of virus detection.

Key words: Sweet potato, Sweet potato feather mottle virus (SPFMV), Sweet potato chlorosis stunt virus (SPCSV), Sweet potato virus G (SPVG), Sweet potato virus C (SPVC), Multiplex RT-PCR

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FENG Liting, ZHANG Jianfeng, CHI Shengqi. Establishment of a Multiplex RT-PCR Assay for Detection of Four Sweet Potato RNA Viruses[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2022, 37(4): 206-211. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20192971.

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