“…The main isothermal methods include loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP; Notomi et al, 2000 ), nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA; Mugasa et al, 2014 ), rolling circle amplification (RCA; Ali et al, 2014 ), helicase-dependent amplification (HDA; Barbieri et al, 2014 ), strand displacement amplification (SDA; Qiu et al, 2013 ), isothermal and chimeric primer-initiated amplification of nucleic acids (ICANs; Asiello and Baeumner, 2011 ), and signal-mediated amplification of RNA technology (SMART; Zanoli and Spoto, 2012 ). Among them, LAMP has been widely adopted and further developed for widespread clinical use (Lee et al, 2015 ; Nakano et al, 2015 ; Neeraja et al, 2015 ; Oriero et al, 2015 ), the diagnosis of infectious diseases (Mori and Notomi, 2009 ; Kinoshita et al, 2015 ; Mansour et al, 2015 ), rapid testing of food products (D'Agostino et al, 2015 ; Ferrara et al, 2015 ; Sun et al, 2015 ) and environmental samples (Niessen, 2015 ; Shi et al, 2015 ), and also for detecting exogenous genes in GMOs (Zhou et al, 2014 ; Liu et al, 2015 ; Feng et al, 2015 ; Huang et al, 2015 ; Singh et al, 2015 ; Wang et al, 2015 ; Zhang et al, 2016 ) in the past decade.…”