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Fire blight is a devastating disease of apple and pear caused by the bacterium  Erwinia amylovora . One of its main symptoms is canker formation on perennial tissues which may lead to the death of limbs and/or the entire tree.  E. amylovora  overwinters in cankers which play an important role in initiating fire blight epidemics. However, knowledge of pathogen biology in cankers is scarce, in part due to limitations of classical microbiology methods and the inability of most molecular techniques to distinguish live from dead cells. In this work, a viability digital PCR (v-dPCR) protocol using propidium monoazide (PMA) was developed, allowing for the first time the selective detection and absolute quantification of  E. amylovora  live cells in apple and pear cankers collected in two time periods. Some key factors affecting the v-dPCR performance were the maceration buffer composition, the target DNA amplicon length, the thermal cycle number and the use of sodium dodecyl sulfate or PMA enhancer for Gram-negative bacteria to improve the effect of PMA. In the future, this methodology could shed light on  E. amylovora  population dynamics in cankers and provide clues on the effect of management practices, host cultivar, host water/nutritional status, etc., on bacterial survival.

Development of a viability digital PCR protocol for the selective detection and quantification of live Erwinia amylovora cells in cankers