Abstract
Several species of Venturia spp. cause scab disease on fruit trees: V. inaequalis on apple, V. pirina on pear, and V. nashicola on Asian pear that is listed as a quarantine pathogen in several countries in the world. An emerging disease caused by V. asperata on apple has very recently been reported in France, Italy and China. Fruit tree scab causes high economic losses and requires frequent fungicide treatments in orchards. Early detection of these pathogens is important in the management of this disease and—in the case of V. nashicola—to prevent its introduction and spread in disease-free areas. Using genomic resources available on these species, we identified polymorphic regions between them to develop a set of real-time PCR assays enabling detection of the four species on symptomatic fruits and leaves. We focused in particular on V. nashicola to establish a comprehensive validation procedure. The assay proved to be effective for targeting this quarantine species, thereby ensuring the reliability of analysis results in the context of regulatory monitoring.
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This research was funded by the French Ministry of Agriculture and the French Agency for Biodiversity, ECOPHYTO/AFB, AAP CASDAR (call for projects 2017) recherche technologique 1716 CREATIVE and the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES). ANSES Plant Health Laboratory is funded by a grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the Investissements d’Avenir programme (ANR-11-LABX-0002-01, Laboratory of Excellence ARBRE). We are grateful to Céline Fourrier-Jeandel, Axel Chatet, Camille Renault and Marie-Noëlle Bellanger for their technical help, Simon Laubray for his assistance with statistical data analyses. We also thank Valérie Caffier for providing Venturia carpophila, Venturia cerasi and Venturia asperata strains. We are also grateful to Myriam Berud, Cyril Sevely, Margaux Champagne, Frédérique Didelot, Marie-Pierre Dufresne, Cédéric Emy, Emile Koké, Philippe Jacques and Anne Duval-Chaboussou for supplying naturally infected samples.
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Muller, E., Shiller, J., Cam, B. et al. Species-specific real-time PCR assays for the detection of Venturia spp. on apple and pear, including the quarantine species V. nashicola. J Plant Pathol 106, 713–728 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42161-024-01615-1
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