Soil Pathogen Mapping - AG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST
Soil Pathogen Mapping News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. You’ve probably heard of soil maps and vegetation maps, but in the future could we actually see maps of the biology of the soil. Researchers in Australia have made strides of mapping soilborne pathogens using DNA sequencing. Dr McKay is the Leader of the Soil Biology and Molecular Diagnostics group at the South Australian Research and Development Institute. McKay... “Essentially we're screening the roots using DNA technologies. We've got some qPCR tests we can run fairly q...
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