Undergraduate Kusymbaeva S.K, PHD in agriculture
Beishova I.S.
Kostanay State University, Kazakhstan
The importance of PCR in R-time regime
in diagnosis septoria of cereals
Cereals are
considered to be one of the main of all agricultural plants in Central Asia,
including Kazakhstan. According to statistics FAO in 2013 this region is
characterized by high level in using of wheat – more than 200 kg per year.
That’s why cereals play an important role in providing the country with
provision. More than that Kazakhstan is the main wheat provider that increases
the requirements to the corn quality. In wheat production in regions the
farmers run into many difficulties, the most dangerous one is spreading of
diseases that cause damage to the harvest [1].
According to
Kazakhstan Republic Government Decree from 10 December 2002 ¹1295 “About
confirmation of the list of quarantine objects and particularly dangerous
harmful organisms” into “The list of dangerous vermin and the diseases of
agricultural plants” the septoria was included [2].
This disease is
considered to be not only widespread practically in all countries, which grow
cereals and also are the main reason of the huge decrease of crop capacity.
Sharp continental climate of Kazakhstan, especially in its north regions is
favorable for development and spreading of septoria, decreasing profitability
of corn production. Decreasing of biological production of plants happens when ãðèáêîâîå disease damage upper leaves of cereals, and also their ears in a period
of milk and milk-waxen ripen. Damaging of ears and upper tier of leaves ãðèáàìè septoria cause the loss of harvest (it’s about 50% during epiphytotics)
[3].
For organization
of rational harvest protection system, making prognosis for developing of
disease, the proper choose of fungicides, time and doses of their application,
in taking decision about necessity of pre-sowing processing of seeds, and also
in producing of stable sorts we need the exact kind identification agents of
septoria. However, the first signs of fungi of the genus septoria on cereal
leaves appear after a sufficiently long period of time until the pathogen
Septoria runs its incubation period, and thus to diagnose the presence of the
disease cannot be visually.
Visual diagnosis
of the disease is complicated by the presence within the same field, and even a
few plants of this kind septoria. To define by morphology of fruiting bodies
conidia complicated by the presence of other similar entities fungi, and after
formation of pycnidia fungicide application will not produce the desired
effect. Traditional methods of complex diagnostics, including the selection of
species in pure culture, selection of media and culture conditions obtaining
monospore isolates and microscopy, durable, time-consuming and not effective
enough. Therefore, the most optimal methods required for the timely diagnosis
of the disease in the early stages of its development.
Adopted in the
Republic of Kazakhstan monitoring system for protecting plants from disease
particularly dangerous technique uses field surveys visual method of
diagnosing, which covers a small part of the acreage, which leads to
misdiagnosis and reduced profitability of grain production. There are a number
of biotic and abiotic diseases with identical signs. For improving the quality
of examination is necessary to introduce modern methods of diagnosis septoria.
Using of
polymerase chain reaction in Real-time for laboratory diagnosis modifications
led to the revolutionary development of the group of diagnostic methods based
on the detection of genetic material. The general principle is based on
multiplication of the number of copies of specific DNA fragments of the target
enzyme, the DNA-synthesis of new complementary polymerase.
Detection of
accumulation of amplicons occurs using an oligonucleotide probe hybridizes to
the target site between the primers. Reaction is carried out under conditions
of multiple repetition of the temperature cycle that includes three main steps:
denaturation, annealing of primers or hybridization and elongation.
If no constraint
to effective amplification per cycle number of copies of a specific target DNA
region is increased twice, and after 30 cycles more than 109 times. Due to this
polymerase chain reaction has been applied in laboratory diagnostics to
determine such small amounts of pathogens, which reliably detected without
amplification impossible. Theoretically with the help of polymerase chain
reaction it can be detected using a single - molecule DNA target. In practice
for reliable analysis must be present in the test tube with the reaction
mixture several dozen copies of a specific DNA.
Detection target
task DNA-target in the test sample using the polymerase chain reaction,
thereby, formed is found to detect the end of amplification products, are used
for this purpose amplicons gel electrophoresis and hybridization enzyme-linked
immunosorbent assay. In the early 1990s was created a new method for detection
of amplicons in real time, which has given the opportunity to correctly
determine the amount of the original DNA-target in the sample.
In modern
laboratory diagnostics Real-Time PCR is being promoted as a method of
identifying specific fragments of genetic material of pathogens and is
gradually replacing the options with the detection of the amplification
products at the end of reaction. The principal advantage is the possibility of
detecting the accumulation of amplicons without opening the tube, which minimizes
the risk of false-positive results due to contamination of samples reagents and
amplification products. The significant decrease in the amount of manipulation
of the test sample reduces the time, simplifies the analysis and reduces the
likelihood of errors. Application along with primers hybridization probes
enhances the specificity analysis. The possibility of independent simultaneous
recording of the fluorescent signal from several hybridization of DNA probes
allows identification of one study of several different parts of one or
different DNA-targets. But the main feature of this methodology allowed to
occupy a special place among the methods of laboratory diagnosis, the ability
to determine the initial number of copies of a specific DNA target in a clinical
trial.
In recent years
the principle of specific DNA amplification began actively to use in developing
methods for reliable determination of the species of plant raw materials. In
comparison with conventional methods for detecting species, establishing the
species of plant materials using highly versatile, deeper level of species
differentiation, high reproducibility and the ability to quantitative analysis.
In spite of using of polymerase chain reaction for species identification of
tissues of plant origin was highly appreciated by foreign experts, in our
country this area, unfortunately, in practice, is not widely used in the
examination of cereal septoria cultures.
Thus, in
Kazakhstan the diagnosis septoria of cereals actively investigated by the method
and its implementation will be offered in production.
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1. Koishibaev M., Ismailova E.T. Peculiarities of development and harmful
effect of septoria of cereals in Kazakhstan. / Herald of agricultural sciences
of Kazakhstan. 1991, ¹11 p. 31-36.
2. The list of introduced changes by decree of Kazakhstan Parliament from
23.11.2005 ¹1157.
3. I.M.Polyakov, E.M.Shumakov, the article “Protection of plants” The Big
Soviet encyclopedia. – M: The Soviet encyclopedia. 1969 – 1978.
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