Molecular diagnostic of plant diseases have helped by increasing the efficacy, accuracy or speed of diagnosis, while their common technological basis also reduces reliance on staff with very specialist skills. This book provides protocols for the majority of nucleic acid-based methods applied to plant pathogen detection and identification.

Contributions by: James Woodhall, Ian Adams, Rachel Glover, Susan Seal, Bart van de Vossenberg, Maja Ravnikar, Adrian Fox, Jennifer Hodgetts, Juerg Frey