Study on detection of soybean components in edible oil with ladder-shape melting temperature isothermal amplification (LMTIA) assay

Abstract

A ladder-shape melting temperature isothermal amplification (LMTIA) assay was established and used to detect soybean components in edible oils. LMTIA primers were designed with the sequence of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) gene as the target, the reaction temperatures were optimized, the sensitivity was determined, and the suitability of the DNA extraction method for edible oil was assessed, with H₂O and genomic DNA (gDNA) from corn, rapeseed, cottonseed, sesame, chili, chicken, pork, beef, and mutton as negative controls to test the false positives of the LMTIA assay. The established LMTIA assay gave a sensitivity of 1 pg at an optimal temperature of 57 °C. The Edible Oil DNA Extraction Kit was suitable for the LMTIA assay to detect soybean components in refined plant oil. No false positives occurred from all negative controls. This study successfully established the LMTIA assay for the detection of soybean ITS genes in edible oils, which could be used to detect soybean components in edible oils.