CRISPR-based point-of-care plant disease diagnostics

The coupling of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas RNA-programmable nucleases with nucleic acid detection platforms has brought radical changes to the field of disease diagnosis. Recently, Sánchez et al. developed a simple, rapid, highly sensitive, precise, and in-field deployable point-of-care (POC) and point-of-need (PON) molecular disease detection tool that can be used in diverse agricultural applications.