PathogenDx Phytox Plant Pathogen Test
PathogenDx has launched Phytox, an asymmetric RT-PCR microarray assay for the cannabis, food, and agriculture sectors.
Phytox detects nine plant-borne viruses using a single assay in approximately three hours. The specific viruses are tested in triplicate. They include beet curly top, lettuce chlorosis, cannabis cryptic, alfalfa mosaic, arabis mosaic, tobacco streak, tobacco mosaic, and cucumber mosaic viruses, as well as hop latent viroid.