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Tarquini G, Maestri S, Ermacora P, Martini M. The Oxford Nanopore MinION as a Versatile Technology for the Diagnosis and Characterization of Emerging Plant Viruses. Methods Mol Biol 2024; 2732:235-249. [PMID: 38060129 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3515-5_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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The emergence of novel viral epidemics that could affect major crops represents a serious threat to global food security. The early and accurate identification of the causative viral agent is the most important step for a rapid and effective response to disease outbreaks. Over the last years, the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) MinION sequencer has been proposed as an effective diagnostic tool for the early detection and identification of emerging viruses in plants, providing many advantages compared with different high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies. Here, we provide a step-by-step protocol that we optimized to obtain the virome of "Lamon bean" plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), an agricultural product with Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) in North-East of Italy, which is frequently subjected to multiple infections caused by different RNA viruses. The conversion of viral RNA in ds-cDNA enabled the use of Genomic DNA Ligation Sequencing Kit and Native Barcoding DNA Kit, which have been originally developed for DNA sequencing. This allowed the simultaneous diagnosis of both DNA- and RNA-based pathogens, providing a more versatile alternative to the use of direct RNA and/or direct cDNA sequencing kits.
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- Giulia Tarquini
- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Center for Genomic Science of IIT@SEMM, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
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Sanfaçon H, Alam SB, Ghoshal B, Ghoshal K, Hui E, Jackson AO, Kakani K, Morris TJ, Nagy PD, Simon AE, Sit TL, Smith TJ, White KA, Xiang Y. D'Ann Rochon (1955-2022), a life of passion for plant virology. Virology 2023; 587:109874. [PMID: 37690385 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2023.109874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
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D'Ann Rochon passed away on November 29th 2022. She is remembered for her outstanding contributions to the field of plant virology, her strong commitment to high quality science and her dedication to the training and mentorship of the next generation of scientists. She was a research scientist for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and an Adjunct Professor for the University of British Columbia. Her research program provided new insights on the infection cycle of tombusviruses and related viruses, including ground-breaking research on the structure of virus particles, the mechanisms of virus transmission by fungal zoospores, and the complexity of plant-virus interactions. She also developed diagnostic antibodies for plum pox virus and little cherry virus 2 that have had a significant impact on the management of these viruses.
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- Hélène Sanfaçon
- Summerland Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 4200 Highway 97, V0H 1Z0, Summerland, BC, Canada.
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- Nanotechnology Research Center, National Research Council Canada, 11421 Saskatchewan Dr NW, T6G 2M9, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
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- Summerland Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 4200 Highway 97, V0H 1Z0, Summerland, BC, Canada.
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- Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Sidney Laboratory, Center for Plant Health, 8801 East Saanich Road, V8L 1H3, Victoria, BC, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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- Enzyme/Protein Engineering, Twist Bioscience, 681 Gateway Blvd., South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD, USA.
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, NC State University, Campus Box 7616, Raleigh, NC 27695-7616, USA.
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- University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 301 University Boulevard, Route 0645, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.
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- Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada.
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- Summerland Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 4200 Highway 97, V0H 1Z0, Summerland, BC, Canada.
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Tiberini A, Tomlinson J, Micali G, Fontana A, Albanese G, Tomassoli L. Development of a reverse transcription-loop- mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for the rapid detection of onion yellow dwarf virus. J Virol Methods 2019; 271:113680. [PMID: 31202851 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2019.113680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Revised: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 06/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Onion yellow dwarf virus (OYDV) is one of the most important viral pathogens of onion. In particular, on 'Rossa di Tropea' onion, granted with Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) trademarks, this pathogen represents the most limiting biotic stress in terms of spread, severity of symptoms and damage, and its detection is necessary to preserve high quality standards and avoid yield losses. A reverse transcription-loop mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay was developed for detection of OYDV. The specificity, sensitivity, repeatability and reproducibility of the assay were validated according to EPPO standard PM7/98 (2). Diagnostic specificity, diagnostic sensitivity and diagnostic accuracy were determined in both leaf and bulb tissues. To enhance the feasibility of a LAMP-based method for field diagnosis, several nucleic acid extraction methods were compared to simplify sample preparation. The results showed the reliability of the method for OYDV detection, with a limit of detection (LOD) comparable to real time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). The ease of sample preparation, and the more than acceptable LOD, indicated that the RT-LAMP assay could be used in plant pathology laboratories with limited facilities and resources, as well as directly in the field. This work was carried out in the frame of "SI.ORTO" project.
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- Antonio Tiberini
- Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento di AGRARIA, Località Feo di Vito, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy.
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- Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento di AGRARIA, Località Feo di Vito, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
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- Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento di AGRARIA, Località Feo di Vito, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
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- Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento di AGRARIA, Località Feo di Vito, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
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- Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria, Centro di Ricerca Difesa e Certificazione, Via C.G. Bertero 22, 00156 Roma, Italy
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