Enhanced Reliability and Accuracy for Field Deployable Bioforensic Detection and Discrimination of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca, Causal Agent of Citrus Variegated Chlorosis Using Razor Ex Technology and TaqMan Quantitative PCR

• Ping Ouyang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Ouyang, Mohammad Arif

  Affiliations National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Mohammad Arif ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Ouyang, Mohammad Arif

  Current address: Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

  Affiliations National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Jacqueline Fletcher ,

  * Email: Jacqueline.fletcher@okstate.edu (JF); ochoaco@okstate.edu (MOC)

  Affiliations National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Ulrich Melcher,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Francisco Manuel Ochoa Corona

  * Email: Jacqueline.fletcher@okstate.edu (JF); ochoaco@okstate.edu (MOC)

  Affiliations National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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