U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service scientists in Corvallis, Oregon, in collaboration with Oregon State University, recently developed a disease surveillance platform that could improve U.S. agriculture by unlocking the future of plant health. PathogenSurveillance is an innovative open-source software tool that can quickly analyze and identify novel microbial variants based on DNA sequences.
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A Camellia plant is infected with Phytophthora nemorosa, which causes leaf blight.
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