Development of a routine DNA-based testing service for soilborne diseases in Australia

By K. Ophel-Keller, A. Mckay, D. Hartley, Herdina, J. Curran. Australasian Plant Pathology, 2008

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Break crops and rotations for wheat (2015, background): “The levels of several cereal root pathogens can be estimated with commercial DNA soil tests, which provide a guide to the disease risk and therefore decisions about growing wheat or a break crop (Ophel-Keller et al. 2008).”
Root-lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus thornei and P. neglectus): a review of recent progress in managing a significant pest of grain crops in northern Australia (2008, methodology): “Provided problems involved in extracting DNA from the pasteurised vertosolic soil used in the glasshouse assay can be overcome, much of this manual work might be replaced with a quantitative DNA test (Ophel-Keller et al. 2008), and this should considerably reduce costs.”
In‐field distribution of Plasmodiophora brassicae measured using quantitative real‐time PCR (2012, methodology): “Furthermore, in order to assist farmers in predicting the impact of different soilborne diseases, a soil testing service using real-time PCR is now operating in Australia (Ophel-Keller et al., 2008), offering tests for e.g. Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, R. solani AG-8 and Fusarium pseudogram”