Automating Citrus Budwood Processing for Downstream Pathogen Detection Through Instrument EngineeringDeborah Pagliaccia *1,6, Douglas Hill *2, Emily Dang 1, Gerardo Uribe 1, Agustina De Francesco 1, Ryan Milton 2, Anthony De La Torre 2, Axel Mounkam 2, Tyler Dang 1, Sohrab Bodaghi 1, Irene Lavagi-Craddock 1, Alexandra Syed 1, William Grover 3, Adriann Okamba 4,5, Georgios Vidalakis *1
1Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California Riverside, 2Technology Evolving Solutions (TES), 3Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, 4Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci ESILV, 5University of California Riverside, 6California Agriculture and Food Enterprise (CAFÉ), University of California Riverside
We engineered, fabricated, and validated an instrument that rapidly processes phloem-rich bark citrus budwood tissues. Compared to current methods, the budwood tissue extractor (BTE) has increased sample throughput and decreased the required labor and equipment costs.
