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On-Site Molecular Detection of Soil-Borne Phytopathogens Using a Portable Real-Time PCR System
Published on: February 23, 2018
Detection of four major bacterial potato pathogens
Ellen M Kerr1, Greig Cahill, Karen Fraser
1DMB, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, Edinburgh, UK.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|March 24, 2009
Abstract:
Ring rot, brown rot and blackleg represent major bacterial pathogens of potato. The methods described below are aimed at basic identification of ring rot, brown rot or blackleg in a tuber sample.
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