Patent ID: 7262010

Claim:
An oligonucleotide primer set consisting of a pair of oligonucleotide primers, one primer consisting of an eighteen to twenty-four nucleotide contiguous portion of SEQ ID NO:1 or of its full complement wherein said eighteen to twenty-four nucleotides of said primer comprises the contiguous sixteen nucleotide sequence 5′-TTCACCGCAAACAGCG-3′ (SEQ ID NO:2), the second primer consisting of an eighteen to twenty-four nucleotide contiguous portion of SEQ ID NO:1 or of its full complement, wherein said eighteen to twenty-four nucleotides of said second primer comprises the contiguous sixteen nucleotide sequence 5′-TACGCCCCAGCAGATG-3′ (SEQ ID NO:3), and wherein said primers of said primer set specifically hybridize to a region of SEQ ID NO:1 or its full complement, and wherein said primers thereby identify Ralstonia solanacearum biovar 2.