DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR EARLY IDENTIFICATION OF PHYTOPLASMA OCCURRENCE

摘要

Anumber of characteristics are highly desirable for disease diagnostics in order to be useful for the farming community. Sensitivity is essential since early disease detection is paramount to containment of the disease before it spread to adjacent agricultural areas. Accuracy is also needed to distinguish among sometimes closely related microorganisms as it is essential to distinguish between pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains. For an assay to be useful it needs to be reliable, providing consistent results.