September
2000
, Volume
90
, Number
9
Pages
973
-
976
Authors
R. D.
Johnson
,
L.
Johnson
,
K.
Kohmoto
,
H.
Otani
,
C. R.
Lane
,
and
M.
Kodama
Affiliations
First, second, third, fourth, and sixth authors: Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, Tottori 680-8553, Japan; fifth author: Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York, YO41 1LZ, UK
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Accepted for publication 18 May 2000.
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Alternaria alternata apple pathotype (previously A. mali) causes Alternaria blotch on susceptible apple cultivars through the production of a host-specific toxin, AM-toxin. Identification of some Alternaria species, especially those that produce host-specific toxins, has been extremely difficult due to a high level of variability which extends even to nonpathogenic isolates. We have recently cloned and characterized a gene (AMT) that plays a crucial role in AM-toxin biosynthesis and demonstrated that it is only present in isolates of A. alternata apple pathotype. Using primers designed for the AMT gene, we developed a polymerase chainreaction-based method to specifically detect AM-toxin producing isolates of A. alternata apple pathotype.
JnArticleKeywords
Additional keywords:
host-selective toxin,
molecular diagnostics.
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