Report of the Test Performance Study (TPS) organised in the framework of the Euphresco project 2019-F-323 ArthCollect. The main aim of the TPS was to compare molecular tests for identifying specime...

Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is an important food crop that is susceptible to a range of pests, including fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematodes. The main fugal pathogens in Europe are Phytopht...

The genus Begomovirus (Family Geminiviridae) is the largest genus of plant viruses with more than 424 species. In Europe and especially in the Mediterranean basin, several members of this genus hav...

Slide of Euphresco project 2016-A-212 'Assessment of a generic method for the detection of Begomoviruses (BegomoVal)'

Pospiviroids are plant pathogens, composed only of infectious circular RNA molecules, which are both latent on many ornamentals and harmful for cultivated plant species like tomato, potato, sweet p...

Slide of the Euphresco project 'Assessment of the risk posed by ornamentals and tomato seeds infected by Pospiviroids to tomato crops and evaluation of Pospiviroid detection protocols for seed test...

The Huanglongbing (HLB / Citrus greening) disease is associated with three species of phloem restricted bacteria recognized as members of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter’, namely ‘asiaticus’ (CLas), ‘amer...

Slide of the Euphresco project 2016-A-232 'Comparison of real-time PCR detection methods for the plant pathogen ‘Candidatus Liberibacter' spp. causing the Huanglongbing disease on Citrus spp.'

Slide of the Euphresco project 2015-D-142 'Consensus detection and identification protocol for Acidovorax citrulli on cucurbit seeds' (DIP-ACIT)

Acidovorax citrulli (A. citrulli) is the causal agent of bacterial fruit blotch (BFB) of cucurbits. Since there are no resistant commercial cultivars, successful management of BFB depends on exclus...