Persistence under simulated rainfall
We found 220 ml of simulated rainfall, irrespective of whether it was heavy, light, or a mist, produced no positive eDNA detections across all eight qPCR replicates (Table 1 ). Reducing the volume of mist to 110 ml resulted in a single positive qPCR replicate on tomatoes, while peaches produced four out of eight positive qPCR replicates over four sample replicates (Table 1 ). We found 55 ml on tomatoes produced two qPCR positives over a single sample replicate, and peaches produced three qPCR positives over two sample replicates. We found the results for tomatoes were unchanged with 27 ml of water, whereas peaches produced one qPCR positive (Table 1 ).