Construction and Use of a Nonradioactive DNA Hybridization Probe for Detection of Pseudomonas syringae pv. Tomato on Tomato Plants

Author:

Cuppels D. A.1,Moore R. A.1,Morris V. L.1

Affiliation:

1. Agriculture Canada Research Centre, 1400 Western Road, London, Ontario, Canada N6G 2V4, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C12

Abstract

Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, the causal agent for bacterial speck of tomato, produces the phytotoxin coronatine. A 5.3-kilobase XhoI fragment from the chromosomal region controlling toxin production was cloned into the plasmid pGB2, and the resulting recombinant plasmid, pTPR1, was tested for its ability to serve as a diagnostic probe for P. syringae pv. tomato. In a survey of 75 plant-associated bacteria, pTPR1 hybridized exclusively to those strains that produced coronatine. The detection limit for this probe, which was labeled with the Chemiprobe nonradioactive reporter system, was approximately 4 × 10 3 CFU of lesion bacteria. During the 1989 growing season, a total of 258 leaf and fruit lesions from nine tomato fields were screened for P. syringae pv. tomato by using pTPR1 and the culture method of detection. The best agreement between the two methods, 90%, occurred early in the season with samples taken from relatively young (5-week-old) plants. Young plants also had a higher percentage of P. syringae pv. tomato-positive lesions. P. syringae pv. tomato was the only coronatine producer recovered from the nine tomato fields. All 244 P. syringae pv. tomato strains isolated during this study reacted strongly with the probe. The P. syringae pv. tomato population of healthy field tomato leaves was determined by a pTPR1 colony hybridization procedure. Every probe-positive colony that was isolated and characterized was identified as P. syringae pv. tomato. The pTPR1 probe should expedite disease diagnosis and facilitate epidemiological studies of this pathogen. It also should aid in screening transplant seedlings for bacterial speck infestation.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

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