A quantitative PCR assay for the detection and quantification of Septoria pistaciarum, the causal agent of pistachio leaf spot in Italy

• Mounira Inas Drais ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mounira Inas Drais, Giorgio Gusella

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drais@unitus.it

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9934-5898

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• Giorgio Gusella ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mounira Inas Drais, Giorgio Gusella

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, Sezione di Patologia Vegetale, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0519-1200

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• Angelo Mazzaglia,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

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• Giancarlo Polizzi

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, Sezione di Patologia Vegetale, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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