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Since Xcc causes only local lesions, infections are non-systemic, limiting the use of serological and molecular diagnostic tools for field-level detection. This necessitates reliance on human visual surveys for Acc symptoms, which is highly inefficient at low disease incidence, and thus for early detection. In simulated orchards the overall combined performance metrics for a pair of canines were 0.9856, 0.9974, 0.9257 and 0.9970, for sensitivity, specificity, precision, and accuracy, respectively, with 1\u20132 s\/tree detection time. Detection of trace Xcc infections on commercial packinghouse fruit resulted in 0.7313, 0.9947, 0.8750, and 0.9821 for the same performance metrics across a range of cartons with 0\u201310% Xcc-infected fruit despite the noisy, hot and potentially distracting environment. In orchards, the sensitivity of canines increased with lesion incidence, whereas the specificity and overall accuracy was &gt;0.99 across all incidence levels; i.e., false positive rates were uniformly low. Canines also alerted to a range of 1\u201312-week-old infections with equal accuracy. When trained to either Xcc-infected trees or Xcc axenic cultures, canines inherently detected the homologous and heterologous targets, suggesting they can detect Xcc directly rather than only volatiles produced by the host following infection. Canines were able to detect the Xcc scent signature at very low concentrations (10,000\u00d7 less than 1 bacterial cell per sample), which implies that the scent signature is composed of bacterial cell volatile organic compound constituents or exudates that occur at concentrations many fold that of the bacterial cells. The results imply that canines can be trained as viable early detectors of Xcc and deployed across citrus orchards, packinghouses, and nurseries.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e22111269","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,10]],"date-time":"2020-11-10T10:47:28Z","timestamp":1605005248000},"page":"1269","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Canine Olfactory Detection of a Non-Systemic Phytobacterial Citrus Pathogen of International Quarantine Significance"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0885-8004","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Timothy","family":"Gottwald","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9299-4599","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gavin","family":"Poole","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA"},{"name":"Center for Integrated Pest Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8395-3936","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Earl","family":"Taylor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4153-9040","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weiqi","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA"},{"name":"Center for Integrated Pest Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2889-7652","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Drew","family":"Posny","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA"},{"name":"Center for Integrated Pest Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0095-8414","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Scott","family":"Adkins","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3367-3899","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"William","family":"Schneider","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"F1K9 LLC, Palm Coast, FL 34797, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6346-9461","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Neil","family":"McRoberts","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Plant Pathology Department, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"74","article-title":"Importance of early season copper sprays for protection of hamlin orange fruit against citrus canker infection and premature fruit drop","volume":"Volume 129","author":"Graham","year":"2016","journal-title":"Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Irey, M., Gottwald, T.R., Graham, J.H., Riley, T.D., and Carlton, G. 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