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