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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (9): 128-133.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0351

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Spodoptera litura Nucleopolyhedrovirus (SpltNPV) in Spodoptera litura Adults: Nested PCR Detection

PU Xiaoming1(), DENG Haibin2, LU Zheng3, ZHANG Jingxin1, SUN Dayuan1, SHEN Huifang1, LIU Pingping1, LIN Birun1, YANG Qiyun1   

  1. 1 Institute of Plant Protection, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Green Prevention and Control on Fruits and Vegetables in South China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of High Technology for Plant Protection, Guangzhou 510640
    2 Tobacco Research Institute of Guangdong Province, Shaoguan, Guangdong 512029
    3 Guangdong Branch of China Tobacco Corporation, Guangzhou 510610
  • Received:2022-04-07 Revised:2022-08-15 Online:2023-03-25 Published:2023-03-23

Abstract:

The aim of this study is to establish a rapid and reliable method for molecular detecting of SpltNPV in Spodoptera litura adults, in order to overcome the defect of the conventional PCR technology. In this paper, the ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase (egt) gene of Spodoptera litura was used as the detection object. Nested PCR primers were designed based on the egt gene sequences, including a pair of outer primers egt-F/R and a pair of inner primers egt1-F/R. And the reliability of nested PCR detection was studied on Spodoptera litura adults. The results showed that the nested PCR method had strong specificity for SpltNPV DNA amplification, and the minimum limit for amplification detection of primer egt-F/R was 10-7 μg/μL. The results also indicated that two rounds of conventional PCR amplification could not detect the SpltNPV by the primers of egt-F/R, and the nested PCR method could effectively amplify the target fragment of gene egt. In addition, the sensitivity of the nested PCR method was 2 orders of magnitude higher than that of the two rounds of the conventional PCR detection method. Therefore, the nested PCR method for detecting SpltNPV was established for Spodoptera litura adults in this study. Moreover, the method can provide technical support for the epidemiological study on the infection and transmission of the virus in Spodoptera litura adults.

Key words: Spodoptera litura Nucleopolyhedrovirus (SpltNPV), adult, egt, nested PCR, detection