Figure 10. Sensitive and accurate detection of plum pox virus using a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay. Plum pox ELISA- positives can be confirmed using this PCR test to amplify a fingerprint region of the viral genome, the 3’ non-coding region.
(Photo L.Levy, USDA-APHIS, PPQ).
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