Pests and disease-causing pathogens frequently impede agricultural production. An early
and efficient diagnostic tool is crucial for effective disease management. Clustered regularly …

New tools and advanced technologies have played key roles in facilitating basic research in
plant pathology and practical approaches for disease management and crop health …

The coupling of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas
RNA-programmable nucleases with nucleic acid detection platforms has brought radical …

Effective plant disease management calls for a rapid, precise, and a convenient field-
deployable method for early diagnosis of phytopathogens, especially in cases where visual …

Existing CRISPR/Cas12a‐based diagnostic platforms offer accurate and vigorous
monitoring of nucleic acid targets, but have the potential to be further optimized for more …

Background Food safety is a major global public health issue. The majority of traditional
culture-based methods have lengthy detection times, require sophisticated sample …

Background In the context of the current pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus,
molecular detection is not limited to the clinical laboratory, but also faces the challenge of …

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
genes (Cas) is a prokaryotic adaptive immune system which has been reprogrammed into a …

Most viruses that infect plants use RNA to carry their genomic information; timely and robust
detection methods are crucial for efficient control of these diverse pathogens. The RNA …

Fusarium head blight (FHB) of wheat, mainly caused by Fusarium graminearum (F.
graminearum) infection, reduces crop yield and contaminates grain with mycotoxins. We …