Optimising droplet digital PCR analysis approaches for detection and quantification of bacteria: A case study of fire blight and potato brown rot

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 406, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 6513-6528

  Dreo, Tanja ^a   Pirc, Manca ^a   Ramšak, Živa ^a   Pavšič, Jernej ^a,b   Milavec, Mojca ^a   Žel, Jana ^a   Gruden, Kristina ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bioanalyticalmethods; Droplet digital PCR; Molecular diagnostics; Plant pathogenic bacteria

Indexed keywords

DROPS; PATHOGENS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ABSOLUTE QUANTIFICATION; BIOANALYTICALMETHODS; DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATIONS; DIGITAL PCR; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; PATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; TARGET CONCENTRATIONS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; ROSACEAE; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTATO; PROCEDURES; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; ROSACEAE;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; ROSACEAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84919769709     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-014-8084-1     Document Type: Article

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