Plant diseases are responsible for major economic losses in the agricultural industry
worldwide. Monitoring plant health and detecting pathogen early are essential to reduce …

Molecular methods allow the detection of pathogen nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) and,
therefore, the detection of contamination in food is carried out with high selectivity and …

DNA microarrays have found widespread use as a flexible tool to investigate bacterial
metabolism. Their main advantage is the comprehensive data they produce on the …

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a single-stranded positive-
sense RNA virus that can cause devastating reproductive failure and respiratory tract …

The majority of efforts to increase specificity or sensitivity in biosensors result in trade-offs
with little to no gain in overall accuracy. This is because a biosensor cannot be more …

A variant of the hybridization oligonucleotide microarray, utilizing the principle of many
probes-one spot (MPOS-microarrays), is proposed. A case study based on Orthopoxviruses …

This book, Microbiology for Food and Health: Technological Developments and Advances,
highlights the innovative microbiological approaches and advances made in the field of …

There has been a persistent concern that massive crop production loss occurs yearly due to
plant pathogens worldwide. Developing and using advanced technologies for timely plant …

Microarray technique is used for the simultaneous detection of multiple pathogens infecting
plants in a single reaction. This method uses virus-specific oligos immobilized on a …

In a recent study, we showed how novel stem–loop DNA probes on dendron-modified
aldehyde substrates could be used to detect synthetic nucleic acid targets without …