➡️EPDIA also has a website ! Go check it out!

The VALITEST project is coming to an end but all the webinar recordings, interviews and videos of the training activities on test validation, TPS organisation and HTS will remain available on the website. ➡️Do not hesitate to share them with your network and (new) colleagues!

The EPDIA diagnostic kits database was built to support diagnosticians in identifying all the available kits for a specific pest/matrix combination. The database was developed in the framework of Valitest EU Project

Check out the EPDIA database listing the EU plant pest detection kits available on the market! pestdiagnosticdatabase.eu ClearDetections EN LOEWE Biochemica IpadLab #Bioreba #Primediagnostic #Sediag

EPDIA Quality Charter available! Visit our website epdia.eu and download it! #qualitycharter #database #betterplantdiagnostic Valitest EU Project

The #VALITEST project has officially ended ➡️Thanks to all the partners for the enormous amount of work and all the results produced to improve plant pest diagnostic ➡️ We will keep you posted on other dissemination activities (publications, conferences) here and on our website

The results of the #VALITEST TPS on #ToBRFV have been published in the journal Pathogens MDPI. Congratulations to @CREA_Ricerca ! ➡️mdpi.com/2076-0817/11/2…

The EPPO Diagnostic Standard PM 7/147 was drafted based on the outputs of the #VALITEST WP3 workpackage and is available in the december issue of the EPPO Bulletin.

Today is International Day of Plant Health. Thanks to Nicola Spence CBE for highlighting the contribution of the #VALITEST project in protecting plants during the celebration organized by @IPPC Food and Agriculture Organization #PlantHealthDay

First pest specific EPPO Diagnostic Protocol revised using #VALITEST TPS results! More to come. Thanks to NIB - Dept. of Biotechnology and Systems Biology and all TPS participants for the efforts to gather more validation data and increase the reliability of E. amylovora diagnostic tests. EPPO OEPP

🚨EPPO is recruiting a new Assistant Director. The post will be based in Paris 🇫🇷 A description of the tasks, desired skills and qualifications is available at: jobs.eppo.int/p4assistdir Applications should be submitted by 2022-09-15.

Published today: Guidelines for using HTS technologies in plant pest diagnostic (part 1): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ep… (open access soon) All you need to know to start using HTS With >50 scientist from 40 countries & 35 labs From Valitest EU Project #sequencing #planthealth

How reliable is your diagnostic test for plant pathogens & pests ? See our guidelines for improved statistical analyses of validation datasets for diagnostic test : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… With links to tutorial videos #planthealth #statistics #pestcontrol #diagnostictests

#DYK ? The EPPO Jens-Georg Unger #PlantHealth Fellowship has been established for 10 years (2020-2030). The deadline to apply for the 2022 #fellowship has been extended to October 16th: lnkd.in/ezT-nBb6 If you are not ready for 2022, start planning for 2023 😉

Monitoring cross-contamination by an Alien Control when applying high throughput sequencing for #virus detection. Our paper is out: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PH… #Diagnostic #HTS #NGS #PlantHealth #validation rollin PhytoFrontiers™ The American Phytopathological Society Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT @inextvir

A new output of the #VALITEST project published! Congratulation to the WP2 partners and to all the reviewers! Sebastien Massart

In addition to the two articles published in the EPPO Bulletin and in Peer Community Journal, an EPPO Standard was published based on the outputs of WP2 on HTS.

The new EPPO Standard 'PM 7/151 (1) Considerations for the use of high throughput sequencing in plant health diagnostics' is now freely available in the EPPO Bulletin. Thanks to the Valitest partners and the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics and QA. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…