Maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV), an important quarantine virus, causes lethal necrosis in maize when coinfected with a potyvirid, which is seriously threatening the production of maize worldwide. In this study, recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA), a novel isothermal DNA amplification and detection technique, was developed to detect MCMV in maize crops. A pair of specific primers was designed based on the conserved sequences of the MCMV coat protein region. The RT-RPA assay was carried out as an isothermal reaction at 38 °C that was complete within 30 min, and no cross-reactivity was detected with other viruses infecting maize in China. The limit of detection of the RT-RPA assay was tenfold lower than that of ordinary RT-PCR. Moreover, this method was successfully applied to test field-collected samples. The newly developed RT-RPA assay offers a reliable, sensitive and efficient method for rapid detection of MCMV in maize in equipment-limited diagnostic laboratories and on-site facilities.

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