Determination of Clavibacter Michiganensis subsp. Insidiosus Infection in Lucerne Seeds by Immunofluorescence Staining and Direct Isolation Using Selective Medium

Author(s):  
J. Németh ◽  
A. N. Kovács

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (SI 2 - 6th Conf EFPP 2002) ◽  
pp. 291-293
Author(s):  
B. Kokošková ◽  
R. Jeřabková

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus (Cms), causing ring rot of potato, is a quarantine bacterium. According to colony morphology, Cms occurs mostly as fluidal (smooth), but sometime as intermediate (rough, i.e. less fluidal) variants, too. Commercial monoclonal antibodies (Agdia, USA) were used for determination of 40 Cms strains representing both forms. All Cms strains were reliably identified by IFAS, but atypical cells were sometime recorded in population of intermediate strains. The fluidal Cms strains were more reliably identified using DAS-ELISA and the Biolog GP MicroPlate System<sup>TM</sup> than intermediate strains. The intermediate Cms strains had decreased metabolic activity compared with fluidal strains and that is why they were identified only to the genera or to the species level or not identified. The differences among fluidal and intermediate Cms strains were recorded also in bioassay on eggplants. The intermediate Cms strains caused atypical or no symptoms with comparison to fluidal strains.



2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Pánková ◽  
B. Kokošková

Monoclonal antibody Mn-Cs1 with a high level of sensitivity and specificity for detection and determination of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus was prepared. Strain C. m. subsp. sepedonicus NCPPB 3467 (as whole cell antigen and extracellular polysaccharides) was used for immunisation of four mice Balb/c. After cloning and verifying, two stable hybridoma clones were gained. One monoclonal antibody, designated Mn-Cs1, was used in all tests. It reacted intensely with extracellular polysaccharides from homologous antigen (&gt; 0.5 mg/ml), weakly with proteins from cell walls (&gt; 200 &mu;g/ml) and with whole homologous antigen (concentration 104&ndash;103 cfu/ml) in DAS-ELISA. Monoclonal antibody Mn-Cs1 showed a high level of specificity. It reacted neither with bacterial strains of closely related subspecies of Clavibacter michiganensis (C. m. subsp. michiganensis and C. m. subsp. insidiosus) nor with the saprophytic bacteria Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pantoea agglomerans.



2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (11) ◽  
pp. 1355-1364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radwan M. Ftayeh ◽  
Andreas von Tiedemann ◽  
Klaus W. E. Rudolph

A new selective and highly sensitive medium was developed for isolation of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm), the causal agent of bacterial canker of tomato, from seed and latently infected plants. The new medium (BCT) proved to be superior to all published semiselective media for Cmm and is denoted as selective medium because of (i) its mean plating efficiency, amounting to ≤89% within 7 days for all 30 Cmm strains from different sources tested; (ii) the high selectivity, because accompanying bacterial species occurring on tomato plants and seed or bacteria obtained from culture collections were inhibited to an extent of 98 to 100%; and (iii) the remarkable detection sensitivity. Thus, 8 CFU of Cmm in field plant homogenates containing 12,750 CFU of accompanying saprophytes were detected on BCT. Under these extreme conditions, all of the published semiselective media (D2, KBT, D2ANX, SCM, mSCM, CMM1, mCNS, and EPPO) gave false-negative results. Either some media were rather toxic and Cmm growth was also inhibited or the other, less toxic media allowed growth of high numbers of saprophytes, so that Cmm growth was suppressed. Exclusively, BCT also supported growth of the closely related C. michiganensis subsp. insidiosus, nebraskensis, and tessellarius. The new medium is recommended for Cmm detection in tomato seed, and in symptomless tomato plantlets, to improve disease control of bacterial canker of tomato.







Author(s):  

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus (Spieckermann & Kotthoff) Dye & Kemp. Actinobacteria: Actinomycetales: Microbacteriaceae. Hosts: potato (Solanum tuberosum) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Information is given on the geographical distribution in Europe (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Crete, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Central Russia, Northern Russia, Siberia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, UK and Ukraine), Asia (China, Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jiangsu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea Democratic People's Republic, Korea Republic, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Turkey and Uzbekistan), North America (Canada, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Mexico, USA, Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota and Oregon) and South America (Bolivia).





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