PCR in Food Science: Current Technology and Applications
This special issue belongs to the section "Food Biotechnology".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food science and food safety are of great significance to people's life stability and social economy. It is very important to use the corresponding detection technology in the research and development, production, processing and circulation of food. As a new molecular biology technology, PCR has been widely used in food safety detection because of its rapid, sensitive and simple operation.
In this Special Issue, we are encouraging submissions of review or research manuscripts related to the new PCR techniques and applications in the areas of food science and food safety such as foodborne pathogen tests, food allergen tests, food authenticity tests, food mycotoxin tests and transgenic food product tests. We are highly interested in and encourage manuscripts related to the new modified PCR techniques coupled with biosensors, new functional nucleases, etc., for food safety.
Prof. Dr. Litao Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymerase chain reaction
- real-time PCR
- digital PCR
- food safety
- food authenticity
- foodborne pathogens
- transgenic food products
- functional nucleic acids
- food allergen
- food mycotoxin
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Published Papers
Foods - ISSN 2304-8158