8 Produce Degradation: Reaction Pathways and their Prevention
TABLE 1.1Commonly Used PCR Primer Sets for Identification and Detection of Soft Rot ErwiniaPrimer Name
Primer Sequence
Closest BLASTn Hit
a
Specificity
Amplicon Size (bp)
Source
Y1
5 ′
ttaccggacg ccgagctgtg gcgt 3
′
Erwinia carotovora
pel
B gene ...
Erwinia carotovora
434
Darrasse et al., 1994
Y2
5 ′
caggaagatg tcgttatcgc gagt 3
′
Erwinia carotovora
pel
B gene ...
y45
5 ′
tcaccggacg ccgaactgtg gcgt 3
′
Erwinia carotovora
pel
B gene ...
Erwinia carotovora
subsp.
atroseptica
439
Frechon et al., 1995
y46
5 ′
tcgccaacgt tcagcagaac aagt 3
′
Erwinia carotovora
pel
B gene ...
ECA1f
5 ′
cggcatcata aaaacacg 3
′
(Pan troglodytes
BAC clone RP43-4 ...)
Erwinia carotovora
subsp.
atroseptica
690
De Boer and Ward, 1995
ECA1r
5 ′
gcacacttca tccagcga 3
′
(Homo sapiens
chromosome 8, clone ... )
ADE1
5 ′
gatcagaaag cccgcagcca gat 3
′
Erwinia chrysanthemi
pel
E
Erwinia chrysanthemi
420
Nassar et al., 1996
ADE2
5 ′
ctgtggccga tcaggatggt tttgtcgtgc 3
′
Erwinia chrysanthemi
pel
E
ERWFOR
5 ′
acgcatgaaa tcttccaatg c 3
′
(Homo sapiens
BAC clone RP11-391J13)
Erwinia carotovora
subsp.
atroseptica
389
Smid et al., 1995
ATRREV
5 ′
atcgatattt gattgtc 3
′
(Arabidopsis thaliana
DNA)
ERWFOR
5 ′
acgcatgaaa tcttccaatg c 3
′
(Homo sapiens
BAC clone RP11-391J13)
Erwinia chrysanthemi
450
Smid et al., 1995
CHRREV
5 ′
agtgctgccg tacagcacgt 3
′
Erwinia chrysanthemi
prt
a
Results from BALSTn search using GenBank nucleotide sequence database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Description in parenthesis
may not infer true genetic
relationship.