Global health and food security constantly face the challenge of emerging human and plant
diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other pathogens. Disease outbreaks such …

Vegetables play a major role in the livelihoods of the rural poor in Africa. Among major
constraints to vegetable production worldwide are diseases caused by a group of viruses …

In-field molecular diagnosis of plant diseases via nucleic acid amplification is currently
limited by cumbersome protocols for extracting and isolating pathogenic DNA from plant …

Accurate management practices in crop health and food safety are critical, especially
regarding the detection of plant pathogens in the early stages of a disease. To date, specific …

From Brazilian weeds with typical symptoms of a geminivirus infection, the DNAs of two new
virus species, two new strains with two variants of already known bipartite begomoviruses …

The isolation of nucleic acids from a biological sample is an important step for many
molecular biology applications and medical diagnostic assays. This chapter describes an …

Background Diagnosis of blood borne infectious diseases relies primarily on the detection of
the causative agent in the blood sample. Molecular techniques offer sensitive and specific …

New recombinant strain and genotype of PVY, designated as PVYNTN-NW and SYR-III,
respectively, shared properties with PVYNTN and PVYNW has been reported recently …

BackgroundDetection and characterization of viral RNA pathogens from fieldwork are
challenging due to the instability of the RNA molecule. FTA cards® have proved useful for …

Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) play a crucial role in the early diagnosis and
prevention of various infectious diseases. Over the last decade, paper-based devices have …