Low-Cost Heating Modalities Allow the Detection of Biomarkers for Plant Infection Using Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) That Are Pathogen Specific.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural pathogens reduce annual crop yields by up to 40% and present a barrier to improving crop production to a level by which it will be able to support a global population of 9 billion by 2050. Current diagnostic methods are slow and lack specificity and typically rely on visual signs of infection, which appear late in the infection cycle. In this work, we explored whether the ambient ionization method rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry (REIMS) could be used to detect pathogen-specific biomarkers of infection against two important pathogens: the nematode Meloidogyne incognita and bacteria Pseudomonas syringae in the tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum). Unlike previous implementations of REIMS for human clinical diagnostics, we explored the use of lo

SUBMITTER: Flint A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12268832 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature