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I am grateful to Drs. Toru Iwanami and Shinichi Miyata (NARO Institute of Fruit Tree Science) and our laboratory members for their generous support and valuable suggestions. Also I sincerely appreciate Prof. Emeritus Shinji Tsuyumu and Prof. Yuichi Takikawa (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University), Drs. Hisatoshi Kaku (Sakata Seed Corp.), Marie Nishimura (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences), Mamoru Satou (NARO Institute of Floricultural Science) for their valuable suggestions and encouragement.
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This article is an abstract of the paper presented by a winner of the Young Scientist Award at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Phytopathological Society of Japan in Sapporo.
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Fujikawa, T. Studies on early and highly sensitive detection of citrus greening pathogenic bacterium. J Gen Plant Pathol 80, 523–524 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-014-0545-z
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