Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky, 1853), native to eastern Asia, is a destructive woodborer of many ornamental species, leading to the decline and the death of the attacked trees. In outbreak areas as Europe or North America, this pest is usually identified using morphological or molecular analyses of adult or larval specimens. However, the procedures for collecting A. glabripennis specimens from infested plants are too expensive and time consuming for routine screening. A noninvasive diagnostic tool based on frass discrimination is therefore crucial for the rapid identification of A. glabripennis at different development stages in the host.This article describes a rapid diagnostic protocol based on loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). DNA extracted from A. glabripennis frass was amplified with both visual and real-time LAMP and compared with those of nontarget species.The results show that the method is reliable and accurate and therefore could be a promising diagnostic tool in phytosanitary surveys.
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19 September 2020
Molecular Identification of Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) From Frass by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification
Domenico Rizzo,
Andrea Taddei,
Daniele Da Lio,
Tommaso Bruscoli,
Giovanni Cappellini,
Linda Bartolini,
Chiara Salemi,
Nicola Luchi,
Fabrizio Pennacchio,
Elisabetta Rossi
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Asian longhorned beetle
frass
LAMP
quarantine Pest
xylophagous insect