Diagnostic Methods of Emerging Plant Pathogens (Viruses, Viroids and Phytoplasmas)
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Emerging Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 26005
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging pathogens of crops (e.g., viruses, viroids, and phytoplasmas) threaten food security and are increasingly problematic due to intensive agriculture and high volumes of trade and transport in plants and plant products. These plant pathogens can be managed most effectively when control measures are implemented at an early stage of infestation. In order to take action against these pathogens, they must be accurately identified. To enable safe trade, their diagnosis must further be completed quickly and to a high level of confidence. Diagnostics of plant viruses, viroids, and phytoplasmas are based on the use of a range of methods such as biological indexing, conventional PCR, real-time PCR, digital PCR, LAMP, etc. In addition, with the advent of high-throughput sequencing (HTS), new pathogens have been discovered, facilitating the association and identification of the etiological agents of unknown diseases.
For the forthcoming Special Issue of Pathogens, we invite you to submit research or review articles related to the latest advances in different aspects of the diagnosis of the emerging plant viruses, viroids, and phytoplasmas. Potential topics of interest to this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, new detection and identification tests for these pathogens. Contributions highlighting the usefulness of new techniques to improve the understanding and prediction of disease spread or disease control, and articles providing deep validation data or extensive comparison studies of existing tests will also be considered. We look forward to your contribution.
Adj. Prof. Dr. Nataša Mehle
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- detection methods
- HTS
- validation of tests
- plant viruses
- viroids
- phytoplasmas
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