Spatial and temporal detection of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ in Diaphorina citri through optimized scouting, sampling, DNA isolation, and qPCR amplification in California citrus groves

• Nathaniel Ponvert,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3922-2228

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• Frank Byrne,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, The University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Monique J. Rivera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Cornell AgriTech, Geneva, New York, United States of America

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• Timo Rohula,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, The University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Sandra Olkowski,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Heshani De Silva Weligodage,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Neil McRoberts,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Judith K. Brown

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jbrown@ag.arizona.edu

  Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4669-8443

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