Quantitative phenotyping of grey leaf spot disease in maize using real-time PCR
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Grey leaf spot is an important maize foliar disease caused by the fungal pathogens Cercospora zeae-maydis and Cercospora zeina. Although methods exist to detect these Cercospora species in maize, current techniques do not allow quantification of the fungi in planta. We developed a real-time SYBR庐 Green PCR assay for quantification of grey leaf spot disease in maize based on the amplification of a fragment of a cytochrome P450 reductase (cpr1) gene. In planta fungal DNA content was normalised to a maize glutathione S-transferase III gene (gst3) to yield values of ng Cercospora DNA/mg maize DNA. The assay was specific to the two Cercospora spp., and we observed no amplification of the cpr1 fragment in non-target maize leaf pathogens or saprophytes. The assay was employed to quantify C. zeina in glasshouse inoculated maize plants and grey leaf spot infected field plants of resistant and susceptible maize lines. In both instances, C. zeina DNA content correlated with symptomatic leaf lesion area, and the susceptible maize line contained significantly more C. zeina DNA than the resistant line. Sequence differences between the C. zeina and C. zeae-maydis cpr1 amplicons enabled us to perform melt curve analyses to identify the Cercospora species causing grey leaf spot at a particular location. This assay has application in the early detection and quantification of Cercospora spp., both of which are important tools in grey leaf spot disease management and maize breeding programmes.

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