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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2007, p. 5531-5538, Vol. 73, No. 17
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00925-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Quantification of 2,4-Diacetylphloroglucinol-Producing Pseudomonas fluorescens Strains in the Plant Rhizosphere by Real-Time PCR{triangledown}

Olga V. Mavrodi,1 Dmitri V. Mavrodi,1 Linda S. Thomashow,2 and David M. Weller2*

Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington,1 USDA-ARS, Root Disease and Biological Control Research Unit, Pullman, Washington2

Received 24 April 2007/ Accepted 3 July 2007

A real-time PCR SYBR green assay was developed to quantify populations of 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (2,4-DAPG)-producing (phlD+) strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens in soil and the rhizosphere. Primers were designed and PCR conditions were optimized to specifically amplify the phlD gene from four different genotypes of phlD+ P. fluorescens. Using purified genomic DNA and genomic DNA extracted from washes of wheat roots spiked with bacteria, standard curves relating the threshold cycles (CTs) and copies of the phlD gene were generated for P. fluorescens strains belonging to genotypes A (Pf-5), B (Q2-87), D (Q8r1-96 and FTAD1R34), and I (FTAD1R36). The detection limits of the optimized real-time PCR assay were 60 to 600 fg (8 to 80 CFU) for genomic DNA isolated from pure cultures of P. fluorescens and 600 fg to 6.0 pg (80 to 800 CFU, corresponding to log 4 to 5 phlD+ strain CFU/rhizosphere) for bacterial DNA extracted from plant root washes. The real-time PCR assay was utilized to quantify phlD+ pseudomonads in the wheat rhizosphere. Regression analysis of population densities detected by real-time PCR and by a previously described phlD-specific PCR-based dilution endpoint assay indicated a significant linear relationship (P = 0.0016, r2 = 0.2). Validation of real-time PCR assays with environmental samples was performed with two different soils and demonstrated the detection of more than one genotype in Quincy take-all decline soil. The greatest advantage of the developed real-time PCR is culture independence, which allows determination of population densities and the genotype composition of 2,4-DAPG producers directly from the plant rhizospheres and soil.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: USDA-ARS, Root Disease and Biological Control Research Unit, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430. Phone: (509) 335-6210. Fax: (509) 335-7674. E-mail: wellerd{at}mail.wsu.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 13 July 2007.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2007, p. 5531-5538, Vol. 73, No. 17
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00925-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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