Several grapevine pathogens are disseminated by propagating material as systemic, but latent infections. Their detection andidentification have a basic importance in the production and handling of propagating stocks. Thus several sensitive and reliable diagnosticprotocols mostly based on molecular techniques have been developed. Of these methods quantitative real-time PCR (q-PCR) has recently gotan emerging importance. Here we collected primer data for the detection and identification of grapevine pathogens which are important inthe production of propagating stocks by q-PCR. Additional novel techniques that use DNA amplification, hybridization and sequencing arealso briefly reviewed
