Improved testing for bacterial spots on tomatoes, peppers and eggplants

Naktuinbouw Laboratories has improved the dilution plating test for the detection of Xanthomonas 'bacterial spot' pathogens on tomato, pepper, and eggplant seeds. After dilution plating all suspect colonies are confirmed with a real-time PCR assay. For this assay, the markers have been improved in line…Original Article