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Wakeham, Alison and Pettitt, Timothy (2017) Diagnostic Tests and their Application in the Management of Soil- and Water-borne Oomycete Pathogen Species. Annals of Applied Biology, 170 (1). pp. 45-67. ISSN 0003-4746 Online: 1744-7348
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Abstract
Oomycete diseases cause significant losses across a broad range of crop and aquaculture commodities worldwide. These losses can be greatly reduced by disease management practices steered by accurate and early diagnoses of pathogen presence. Determinations of disease potential can help guide optimal crop rotation regimes, varietal selections, targeted control measures, harvest timings and crop post-harvest handling. Pathogen detection prior to infection can also reduce the incidence of disease epidemics. Classical methods for the isolation of oomycete pathogens are normally deployed only after disease symptom appearance. These processes are often-time consuming, relying on culturing the putative pathogen(s) and the availability of expert taxonomic skills for accurate identification; a situation that frequently results in either delayed application, or routine ‘blanket’ over-application of control measures. Increasing concerns about pesticides in the environment and the food chain, removal or restriction of their usage combined with rising costs have focussed interest in the development and improvement of disease management systems. To be effective, these require timely, accurate and preferably quantitatve diagnoses. A wide range of rapid diagnostic tools, from point of care immunodiagnostic kits to next generation nucleotide sequencing have potential application in oomycete disease management. Here we review currently-available as well as promising new technologies in the context of commercial agricultural production systems, considering the impacts of specific biotic and abiotic and other important factors such as speed and ease of access to information and cost effectiveness
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| Additional Information: | Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text via the UW online library search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Diagnostic tests and their application in the management of soil- and water-borne oomycete pathogen species, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aab.12315/abstract. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
| Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | disease management, diagnosis, crop pathogens |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QK Botany Q Science > QR Microbiology Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology |
| Divisions: | College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Science and the Environment |
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| Depositing User: | Alison Wakeham |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2016 12:41 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2020 13:00 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/4887 |
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