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    Ratoon stunting disease (RSD) host-pathogen relationships in sugarcane : SRDC final report BS99S
    (BSES, 1997) Brumbley; Birch, R; Croft, BJ; Taylor, PWJ; Petrasovits, LA
    Clavibacter xyli subsp. xyli (Cxx) is a gram +, fastidious, slow growing bacterium that causes ratoon stunting disease (RSD) of sugarcane. Because of its fastidious nature, slow growth, and poor symptom expression, it has traditionally been put into the 'too hard basket' by molecular plant pathologists. Systems for transformationa nd transposon-based mutagenesis of Cxx have been successfully established. In addition, a very sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based detection system was developed for Cxx so that as few as 100 cells per reaction can be detected in the xylem extracts from Cxx infected plants.
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    Economic analysis of RSD control strategies : final report SRDC project BS101S
    (BSES, 1995) Croft, BJ; Page, JR; Bull, JK; Beattie, RN
    The aim of this study was to compare the economics of the existing RSD control strategy in Australia of disease-free seed and disinfecting harvesters with breeding cultivars resistant to RSD. Analysis presented in this paper show that an effective disease-free seed scheme is economically the best RSD control strategy. Cultivar resistance would only be attractive if disease-free seed ceased to be a viable option.