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By Shaun Stice, PhD

Today, plant viruses wipe out as much as 30% of potential Cannabis and Hemp crop yield, a risk to grows that can’t be ignored. PhytoX from PathogenDx let’s labs help growers with quicker results, and take fast action to remove infected plants before viruses spread and impact potency and growth. The easy-to-use RT-PCR microarray assay detects nine plant viruses driving Cannabis, Hemp, and other agriculture yield losses, all in a single test.

By Shaun Stice, PhD 

Herd Mentality: While most virus infections in plants may be of a single strain, it is possible for multiple viruses to infect the same plant. Plant virus co-infections can have severely negative outcomes for the infected plant depending on the viruses involved in the co-infection.

By Rick Eggers and Dr. Mike Hogan

A Little Variant History.

SARS-CoV-2 is a simple virus, which presents a single protein (Spike) on its surface. Thus, Spike serves as a primary point of interaction between the virus and human cells and between the virus and the human immune system.

By Andrew Tognolini

We are extremely proud to announce that, in Spring 2022, PathogenDx has once again received proficiency awards from the Emerald Test™ Advisory Panel.

This Spring’s awards include:

By Shaun Stice, PhD

Cannabis growers today face a pathogen threat to their crop known as Hop Latent Viroid. What is Hop Latent Viroid and what do you need to know about the viroid causing $4 Billion in Cannabis crop losses annually?