Root cause analysis
Plants wilting, a room failing microbial testing, results that do not add up. We take the samples, run the methods the question needs, and tell you what is causing it and what to change.
How an investigation worksA plant health lab: root cause analysis, molecular diagnostics, and tissue culture.
When a room is failing and the usual checks do not explain it, Verne Bio finds out what is going on, tests for it, and keeps clean stock of the lines you cannot afford to lose.
For licensed cannabis cultivators.
The qPCR panel16 targets, two reactions per sample
- Viroid
- Hop latent viroid
- Viruses
- Alfalfa mosaic virus; Cannabis cryptic virus; Lettuce chlorosis virus; Tobacco mosaic virus; Tomato ringspot virus
- Powdery mildew
- Golovinomyces, three species
- Botrytis
- Botrytis, two targets
- Fusarium
- Fusarium oxysporum, two forms
- Pythium
- Pythium, three species
Results in 5 business days from sample arrival. About the panel
Three ways to work with the lab
Testing
A 16-target qPCR panel for the viroid, viruses, and fungal pathogens that matter in cannabis production. Beyond it, sequencing to name the unknown, environmental testing for rooms and water, screening programs, tissue culture indexing, and custom assays.
Every test the lab runsTissue culture
CleanPheno is the lab's tissue culture program: cleanup of infected genetics, clean stock, and a living backup of every line, tested at each step by the same lab.
About CleanPhenoA recent investigation
A cultivator was failing microbial compliance testing on finished product. The certificates of analysis said what was over the limit, not where it came from. We reviewed about thirty of them to see the pattern, then sampled the rooms, the water, and the post-harvest areas, and plated and sequenced what grew. That is the difference between a test and an investigation: the test names the organism, the investigation finds the point in the process it is coming from.
What the lab is for
Diagnostics tell you which organism is in a sample. Root cause analysis tells you why it is there and what to change. Tissue culture gives you clean material to start again from. One lab does all three, so the test result, the investigation, and the clean stock all come from the same bench and the same record.
Every result, every facility, in one place
Orders, sample status, reports, and invoices for all of your sites are in the PhytoIntel portal. Results arrive by email the moment they are ready.
From the lab
Articles on pathogens, case notes, methods, and what to read. The first ones are on the way.
Start with the problem
Tell us what you are seeing and how many rooms or strains it touches. Someone from the lab will reply within one business day. Every inquiry is kept confidential.