Profiling grapevine trunk pathogens in planta: a case for community-targeted DNA metabarcoding.
Abraham Morales-CruzRosa Figueroa-BalderasJadran F GarcíaEric TranPhilippe E RolshausenKendra BaumgartnerDario CantuPublished in: BMC microbiology (2018)
Overall, our findings not only demonstrate that DNA metabarcoding gives qualitatively and quantitatively accurate results when applied to grapevine trunk diseases, but also that primer customization and testing are crucial to ensure the validity of DNA metabarcoding results.