Introduction to special issue: advancing disease ecology through eDNA monitoring of infectious agents

J Childress, CL Faust, K Deiner - Environmental DNA, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This special issue focuses on the applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing for
the detection and monitoring of disease‐causing agents, including viruses, bacteria …

[HTML][HTML] Non-destructive insect metabarcoding for surveillance and biosecurity in citrus orchards: recording the good, the bad and the psyllids

F Martoni, R Smith, AM Piper, J Lye, C Trollip… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Background The Australian citrus industry remains one of the few in the world to be
unaffected by the African and the Asian citrus psyllids, Trioza erytreae Del Guercio and …

[HTML][HTML] Forest health and biosecurity in a changing world

AJ Carnegie, S Lawson, J Mason, H Nahrung - Australian Forestry, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Australia's forest industry faces significant challenges to ensure it is prepared to meet
existing, emerging and new forest health and biosecurity threats in a changing world …

[HTML][HTML] High throughput screening of fungal phytopathogens caught in Australian forestry insect surveillance traps

C Trollip, AJ Carnegie, AM Piper, J Kaur… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Post-border surveillance for forestry's high priority pests and pathogens is conducted
routinely through established programs focused on the main points-of-entry and across the …

[HTML][HTML] Fungi associated with the ambrosia beetle Xyleborus perforans (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) on drought-stressed Pinus in New South Wales …

ZI Mahony, K Scarlett, AJ Carnegie, C Trollip… - Australasian Plant …, 2024 - Springer
Ambrosia beetles have co-evolved symbiotic relationships with an array of fungal partners.
Mutualistic fungal partners are often highly successful in vertical transmission between …

Biosecurity strategies to mitigate risk of viruses in vegetable crops–Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus as a model

J Mackie - 2024 - opal.latrobe.edu.au
Biosecurity Strategies to Mitigate Risk of Viruses in Vegetable Crops – Cucumber Green
Mottle Mosaic Virus as a Model Page 1 Biosecurity Strategies to Mitigate Risk of Viruses in …

Protein coding low-copy rpb2 and ef1-α regions are viable fungal metabarcoding DNA markers which can supplement ITS for better accuracy

V Shapkin, M Caboň, M Kolarik… - ESS Open Archive …, 2024 - authorea.com
The nuclear ribosomal DNA Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region is used as universal
fungal barcode marker, but it is often missing significant DNA barcoding gap between sister …