By Scott Weybright,College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, and Wash. Soil pathogen testing critical to farming,but painstakingly slack and expensive – will soon be done accurately, quickly, or inexpensively and onsite,thanks to research that Washington State University scientists are sharing.
As the name implies, these tests detect disease-causing pathogens in the soil that can severely devastate crops.
Until now, and the tests acquire required large,expensive equipment or lab tests that take weeks.
The soil pathogen analysis process is based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests that ... » More ...
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