The robustness of the optimized one-step RT-RPA method was further validated by testing 99 PLRV suspected field samples (leaves and tubers) of popular potato cultivars during the year 2019–2020. These samples were collected from fields across the states of India. The states of India that are believed to have contributed the suspect samples are as follows: Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Virus-free tissue culture-grown mother plants and mini-tubers were used as the samples for determining the overall health of the population. The validation procedure also made use of the tubers that had been saved from diseased plants. In addition to examining dormant tubers (without sprouts), sprouts and leaves, a comparison between DAS-ELISA and one-step RT-PCR/RT-RPA was conducted. Comparable results from this investigation were discovered (Table 2 and Table 3). The RT-PCR and DAS-ELISA procedures were carried out in the same way as previously described [12 (link)].
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