Author:
Fernandez i Marti Angel,Parungao Marcus,Selimotic Berin,Farrar Graham,Seyler Tristan,Anand Ajith,Ahmad Riaz
Abstract
AbstractHop latent viroid (HLVd) is a severe disease of cannabis, causing substantial economic losses in plant yield and crop value for growers worldwide. The best way to control the disease is early detection to limit the spread of the viroid in grow facilities. This study describes MFDetect™ as a rapid, highly sensitive, and high-throughput tool for detecting HLVd in the early stages of plant development. Furthermore, we compared MFDetect™ with RT-PCR in a time course experiment using different plant tissue, leaf, petiole, and roots at different plant development stages to demonstrate both technologies are comparable. Our study found leaf tissue is a suitable plant material for HLVd detection, with the viroid titer increasing in the infected leaf tissue with the age of plants. The study showed that other tissue types, including petiole and roots, were equally sensitive to detection via MFDetect™. The assay developed in this research allows the screening of thousands of plants in a week. The assay can be scaled easily to provide the growers with a quick turnaround and cost-effective diagnostic tool for screening many plants and tissue types at different stages of development.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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