| predicting cereal root disease in western australia using soil dna and environmental parameters. | root diseases have long been prevalent in australian grain-growing regions, and most management decisions to reduce the risk of yield loss need to be implemented before the crop is sown. the levels of pathogens that cause the major root diseases can be measured using dna-based services such as predicta b. although these pathogens are often studied individually, in the field they often occur as mixed populations and their combined effect on crop production is likely to vary across diverse croppin ... | 2015 | 25822184 |