Detection and Diagnostics of Plant Pathogens

BOOK 5. DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS OF PLANT PATHOGENS Technologies 1. New developments in identification and quantification of airborne inoculum - Steph Heard, Jonathan S. West 2. siRNA deep sequencing and assembly: piecing together viral infections - Jan Kreuze 3. Use of airborne inoculum detection for disease management decisions - Walt Mahaffee 4. Proximal sensing of plant diseases - Erich-Christian Oerke, Anne-Katrin Mahlein, Ulrike Steiner Case studies and special applications 5. Diagnostic Challenges for the Detection of Emerging Pathogens: A Case Study Involving the Incursion of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae in New Zealand - Robert K. Taylor, Joanne R. Chapman, Megan K. Romberg, Bevan S. Weir, Joel L. Vanneste, Kerry R. Everett, Lisa I. Ward, Lia W. Liefting, Benedicte S.M. Lebas, Brett J.R. Alexander 6. Detection of Human Pathogens on Plants - Li Maria Ma, Jacqueline Fletcher, Guodong Zhang 7. Plant Disease Diagnostics For Forensic Applications - Jacqueline Fletcher, Francisco M. Ochoa Corona, Mark Payton III. Role of diagnostics in plant disease management 8. Results of the EU project QBOL, focusing on DNA barcoding of quarantine organisms, added to an international database (Q -bank) on identification of plant quarantine pathogens and relatives - Peter J.M. Bonants 9. On-site testing - moving decision making from the lab to the field - Neil Boonham 10. Virtual Diagnostic Networks: A platform for collaborative diagnostics - James P. Stack, Jane Thomas, Will Baldwin, Paul Verrier 11. Development and implementation of rapid and specific detection techniques for seed-borne pathogens of leafy vegetable crops. - Maria Lodovica Gullino, Giovanna Gilardi, Giuseppe Ortu, Angelo Garibaldi 12. Diagnosis of plant pathogens and implications for plant health regulation: the European Food Safety Authority perspective - Vittorio Rossi, Thierry Candresse, Michael J. Jeger, Charles Manceau, Gregor Urek, Giuseppe Stancanelli