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DNA Nultiscan: A New Tool for Rapid Detection of Pathogens in Water, Soil, and Plant Tissue

Sabourin, M. International Plant Propagators' Society, combined proceedings 2006, 56:327-329. 2007.

The main limitation in plant disease management is the ease of plant pathogen identification. Standard procedures’ limitations include: • Time-consuming and often laborious. • Require extensive knowledge in both classical taxonomy and culture methods. • Exclude culture-independent organisms. • Detect few organism at a time. Molecular and serological identification methods, on the other hand, generate accurate results rapidly but detect few organisms at a time. The solution is DNA-array technology.


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Author(s): M. Sabourin

Section: Pest Management