The Tropical Fruit Forum
Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: FV Fruit Freak on May 08, 2019, 11:08:48 AM
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Wish someone would start doing this for tropical and subtropical fruit trees.
http://fps.ucdavis.edu/dnamain.cfm (http://fps.ucdavis.edu/dnamain.cfm)
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Wish someone would start doing this for tropical and subtropical fruit trees.
http://fps.ucdavis.edu/dnamain.cfm (http://fps.ucdavis.edu/dnamain.cfm)
That would be great if it was done for tropical and subtropicals. It would probably stop some people in California from renaming everything.
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Wish someone would start doing this for tropical and subtropical fruit trees.
http://fps.ucdavis.edu/dnamain.cfm (http://fps.ucdavis.edu/dnamain.cfm)
That would be great if it was done for tropical and subtropicals. It would probably stop some people in California from renaming everything.
Ya, and a few from Florida...
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Haha, very true!
I’ve considered working out a contract with a DNA sequencing company that could also process the samples but it would be too expensive for most growers and we would need a reference DNA library to blast the unknown samples against.
Sequencing the samples is not very expensive but extracting the DNA and running the PCR gets very expensive. Sequencing a single sample used to run about $9 per sample but when you have thousands of samples, it only costs $2-3 per sample. This is if you already have a contract with the company. If you don’t have a contract, the samples will probably cost 5-10 times more because the companies don’t want to waste their time on such small orders.
Simon