Our Services
Individual Pathogen Testing
For Hop Latent, Pan Fusarium, Pan Pythium, and Mother Stock testing.
Meristem Culture
We harvest and excise the apical meristem from the growing points found at the tips of shoots. Since this material is not connected to the plant’s vascular system, we are able to generate completely clean, disease free and genetically identical plantlets. This process can take from 9–12 months to successfully initiate, depending on the cultivar.
Banking Services
We want to preserve and protect your prized cultivars at our facility indefinitely. We will work with our clients to produce mothers or plantlets on schedule for your cultivar to reach your production room. Successful initiation into tissue culture
DNA Sequencing
Adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine analysis.
Active Storage
We will maintain an agreed upon number of plantlet shoots for any cultivar. The number of plantlets maintained will depend on scale and time needed to “reboot” the cultivar.
Water System Test
HPLVd plus Fusarium plus Pythium
Shoot Tip and Nodal Cultures
These methods involve harvesting shoot tips and stem segments containing at least one node from an explant. The plant material goes through a robust sterilization process but does not necessarily eliminate endophytes, viruses or viroids. This is a fast method to return plantlets to the grower (as fast as 11 weeks for some cultivars) but this does not allow us to guarantee the same quality of clean product.
Glacial Storage (coming soon)
Concurrent to Active storage, we will put your cultivar into callus culture. This is a cheaper means to store your genetics long-term but the “reboot” time is significantly longer.