Segra International Announces Development and Validation of In-House Assay for Hop Latent Viroid (HLVd)
This pathogen assay adds to a substantial list of viral, fungal, and bacterial pathogens Segra already test for in-house as part of their Verified Clean Stock program.
- This pathogen assay adds to a substantial list of viral, fungal, and bacterial pathogens Segra already test for in-house as part of their Verified Clean Stock program.
- Rather than relying on older published HLVd detection assays, Segra's real-time RT-PCR assay is based on consensus of current HLVd sequences recorded in Genbank.
- "Hop Latent Viroid is an increasingly recognized pathogen now showing obvious economic damage in commercial cannabis cultivation globally.
- Segra has developed industrial-scale laboratories to produce Verified Clean Stock, robust, and DNA-fingerprinted cannabis plantlets for licensed producers globally.