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Phytopathological Disease Diagnostics- Challenges and Future Directions
Arising, reappearing and endemic plant pathogens continues to challenge the ability to protect plant health around the world. Further, globalization, increased human mobility, climate change, and vector and pathogen evolution have assisted in spreading invasive plant pathogens. Accurate and early diagnoses and pathogen observation on global, regional, and local scales are important to outbreaks and offer time for application and development of mitigation procedures.
Phytopathology or plant pathology identification expectedly depends on molecular technology that is confounded, tedious and compelled to centralized laboratories. Plant disease diagnostic networks have been created to address the issues of effective and efficient diagnosis as well as pathogen detection, inducing participation of experts and institutions within nations and across national borders. Networking boosts the impacts of contracting government investments in agriculture and reducing human resource limit in diagnostics as well as applied pathology.