Cp. Pollini et al., SPECIFIC DETECTION OF D-ISOLATES AND M-ISOLATES OF PLUM POX VIRUS BY IMMUNOENZYMATIC DETERMINATION OF PCR PRODUCTS, Journal of virological methods, 67(2), 1997, pp. 127-133
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Virology,"Biochemical Research Methods","Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Molecular techniques based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can
provide rapid and sensitive diagnosis of plum pox virus (PPV), the cau
sal agent of the devastating 'sharka' disease of stone fruit trees. Th
e present study compared routine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) proce
dures against a new system, PCR-ELISA (Boehringer Mannheim), which ena
bles immunoenzymatic detection of PCR products. The results show that
this hybridisation system ensures fast and more sensitive detection of
PPV associated with stone fruit trees and herbaceous hosts. Strain-sp
ecific capture probes were also designed to identify the two major PPV
isolates, D and M, without subsequent restriction fragment length pol
ymorphism analysis of the PCR products. Optimisation of all parameters
involved in the PCR-ELISA procedure are discussed and its advantages
reported. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.