Support for the Southern Gardens Diagnostic Laboratory

Support for the Southern Gardens Diagnostic Laboratory

Report Date: 11/05/2015
Project: 15-32C   Year: 2015
Category: CLas Bacteria
Author: Michael Irey
Sponsor: Citrus Research and Development Foundation

This project is a continuation of the funding that has been granted to SGC to provide an HLB detection laboratory available to the Florida industry. For the first quarter (July 1-September 30, 2015), a total of 6,951 samples have been processed. Of those, 6,481 are plant samples and 470 are psyllid samples. Virtually all of the plant samples represent research or grower trial samples submitted by either private, corporate, CRDF, State or Federal personnel. At the request of some of the sample providers, DNA concentration and copy number estimates are now being provided in addition to the Ct values for the qPCR test. This is being done on a case by case basis and only by request.


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