Molecular detection of a bacterial contaminant Bacillus pumilus in symptomless potato plant tissue cultures

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 814-820

  Isenegger, D A ^a   Taylor, P W J ^c   Mullins, K ^b   McGregor, G R ^a   Barlass, M ^a   Hutchinson, J F ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE VICTORIA RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Diagnostic tool; Microbial contaminant; Molecular marker

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; DNA; TISSUE CULTURE;

BACTERIAL CONTAMINANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PUMILUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0037650096     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-003-0583-z     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Ashmore SE (1997) Status report on the development and application of in vitro techniques for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources. International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy
2. Benjama A, Charkaoui B (1997) Control of Bacillus contaminating date palm tissue in micropropagation using antibiotics. In: Cassells AC (ed) Pathogen and microbial management in micropropagation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 237-244
3. Buckley PM, DeWilde TN, Reed BM (1995) Characterization and identification of bacteria isolated from micropropagated mint plants. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Plant 31:58-64
4. Cassells AC (1991) Problems in tissue culture: culture contamination. In: Debergh PC, Zimmerman RH (eds) Micropropagation technology and application. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 31-44
5. Cassells AC (1997) Pathogen and microbial contamination management in micropropagation - an overview. In: Cassells AC (ed) Pathogen and microbial management in micropropagation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 1-14
6. Debergh PC, Vanderschaeghe AM (1988) Some symptoms indicating the presence of bacterial contaminants in plant tissue cultures. Acta Hortic 225:77-81
7. Falkiner FR (1997) Antibiotics in plant tissue culture and micropropagation-what are we aiming at? In: Cassells AC (ed) Pathogen and microbial management in micropropagation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 155-160
8. Fellner M, Kneifel W, Gregorits D, Leonhardt W (1996) Identification and antibiotic sensitivity of microbial contaminants from callus cultures of garlic Allium sativum L. and Allium longicuspis Regel. Plant Sci 113:193-201
9. Gaëta BA (1997) ANGIS bioinformatics handbook. CSIRO, Australia
10. Gaëta B (2000) blast on the web. Biotechniques 28:436-439
11. Granada GA, Sequeira L (1983) A new selective medium for Pseudomonas solanacearum. Plant Dis 67:1084-1088
12. Heid CA, Stevens J, Livak KJ, Williams PM (1996) Real time quantitative PCR. Genome Res 6:986-994
13. Herman EB (1999) New method for detecting latent contaminants in plant tissues. Agricell Rep 33:21
14. Isenegger DA, Taylor PWJ, Ford R, Franz P, McGregor GR, Hutchinson JF (2001) DNA fingerprinting and genetic relationships of potato cultivars (Solanum tuberosum L.) commercially grown in Australia. Aust J Agric Res 52:911-918
15. Kamoun R, Lepoivre P, Boxus P (1997) Evidence for the occurrence of endophytic prokaryotic contaminants in micropropagated plantlets of Prunus cerasus cv. Montmorency. In: Cassells AC (ed) Pathogen and microbial management in micropropagation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 145-148
16. Legatt IV, Waites WM (1988) Characterisation of micro-organisms isolated from plants during micropropagation. Acta Hortic 225:93-102
17. Leifert C, Cassells AC (2001) Microbial hazards in plant tissue and cell cultures. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 37:133-138
18. Leifert C, Woodward S (1997) Laboratory contamination management; the requirement for microbiological quality assurance. In: Cassells AC (ed) Pathogen and microbial management in micropropagation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 237-244
19. Martin RR, James D, André Lévesque C (2000) Impacts of molecular diagnostic technologies on plant disease management. Annu Rev Phytopathol 38:207-239
20. Paran I, Michelmore RW (1993) Development of reliable PCR-based markers linked to downy mildew resistance genes in lettuce. Theor Appl Genet 85:985-993
21. Poussier S, Luisetti J (2000) Specific detection of biovars of Ralstonia solanacearum in plant tissues by nested-PCR-RFLP. Eur J Plant Pathol 106:255-265
22. Reed BM, Tansprasert P (1995) Detection and control of bacterial contaminants of plant tissue cultures: a review of recent literature. Plant Tissue Cult Biotechnol 1:137-142
23. Reeves JC (1997) Molecular diagnostics for pathogen detection in seeds and planting material. In: Cassells AC (ed) Pathogen and microbial management in micropropagation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 83-96
24. Seal S (1997) Cost analysis of detection of bacteria and phytoplasmas in plant tissue cultures by PCR. In: Cassells AC (ed) Pathogen and microbial management in micropropagation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 123-130
25. Stead DE, Hennessy J, Wilson J (1997) Modern methods for identifying bacteria. In: Cassells AC (ed) Pathogen and microbial management in micropropagation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 61-74
26. Taylor PWJ (1997) In vitro germplasm conservation of sugarcane cultivars, basic sugarcane species and related genera. In: Razdan MK, Cocking EC (eds) Conservation of plant genetic resources in vitro. Science, USA, pp 243-256
27. Towner P (1991) Isolation of DNA by SDS-proteinase K treatment. In: Brown TA (ed) Essential molecular biology, vol 1. A practical approach. IRL Press, Oxford University Press, UK, pp 52-53
28. Tsoktouridis G, Mantell S, Bantinaki E, Thangavelu M (1997) DNA profiling and strategies for in planta localization of bacteria intimately associated with Billbergia magnifica ssp. acutisapalia. In: Cassells AC (ed) Pathogen and microbial management in micropropagation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 115-122
29. Wang X, Fang Z, Huang S, Sun P, Liu Y, Yang L, Zhuang M, Qu D (2000) An extended random primer amplified region (ERPAR) marker linked to a dominant male sterility gene in cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata). Euphytica 112:267-273
30. Weisberg WG, Barns SM, Pelletier DA, Lane DJ (1991) 16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study. J Bacteriol 173:697-703
31. Weller SA, Aspin A, Stead DE (2000) Classification and identification of plant-associated bacteria by fatty acid profiling. Bull OEPP/EPPO Bull 30:375-380
32. Zijlstra C (2000) Identification of Meloidogyne chitwoodi, M. fallax and M. hapla based on SCAR-PCR: a powerful way of enabling reliable identification of populations or individuals that share common traits. Eur J Plant Pathol 106:283-290