NDLI: Seed protein biotyping in Amaranthus species: a tool for rapid identification of weedy amaranths of concern

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Author	Murphy, Maxime Hubert, Julia Wang, Ruojing Galindo-González, Leonardo
Abstract	Background The Amaranthus genus contains at least 20 weedy and invasive species, including Amaranthus palmeri (palmer’s amaranth) and Amaranthus tuberculatus (tall waterhemp), two species of regulatory concern in North America, impacting production and yield in crops like corn, soybean and cotton. Amaranthus tuberculatus is regulated in Canada with limited establishment, while current climate models predict a range expansion of A. palmeri impacting crop growing areas in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba. Since many Amaranthus species are similar in their morphology, especially at the seed stage, this demands the development of additional methods that can efficiently aid in the detection and identification of these species. Protein biotyping using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) has been traditionally used to identify microorganism species, races and pathotypes. Major protein fractions extracted from an organism, ionized and run through a biotyper using mass spectrometry, result in protein spectra that represent a fingerprint at the species or lower taxonomic rank, providing an efficient molecular diagnostics method. Here we use a modified protein biotyping protocol to extract major protein fractions from seeds of the family Brassicaceae to test our protocol, and then implemented the standardized approach in seeds from Amaranthus species. We then created a database of Amaranthus protein spectra that can be used to test blind samples for a quick identification of species of concern. Results We generated a protein spectra database with 16 Amaranthus species and several accessions per species, spanning target species of regulatory concern and species which are phylogenetically related or easily confused at the seed stage due to phenotypic plasticity. Testing of two Amaranthus blind sample seed sets against this database showed accuracies of 100% and 87%, respectively. Conclusions Our method is highly efficient in identifying Amaranthus species of regulatory concern. The mismatches between our protein biotyping approach and phenotypic identification of seeds are due to absence of the species in the database or close phylogenetic relationship between the species. While A. palmeri cannot be distinguished from A. watsonii, there is evidence these two species have the same native range and are closely related.
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Page Count	14
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ISSN	17464811
DOI	10.1186/s13007-023-01116-9
Journal	Plant Methods
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	19
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2023-12-11
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Plant Sciences Biological Techniques Amaranthus Amaranthus palmeri Amaranthus tuberculatus Protein biotyping MALDI Seed identification
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Plant Science Biotechnology Genetics
Journal Impact Factor	4.7/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	5.6/2023

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