Author Contributions
REV carried out and oversaw the field and laboratory experiments, assisted with and oversaw the analyses, and wrote the manuscript. MCA and DJW conducted the analyses and wrote the manuscript. KEK carried out the field and laboratory experiments. JLL provided funding and resources, oversaw the project, and wrote the manuscript.
Table 1 : Rain experiment showing positive or negative eDNA detection on tomatoes and peaches. Boxes in white indicate results of sample replicates (i.e. individual fruits tested), and boxes in grey indicate results of the total qPCR replicates (two replicates per sample).