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I found a great new tecnique offered by Western labs in Parma Idaho. They have a new test run by PCR ( polymerase chain rection) to ID DNA of pathogenic fungi or viruses. Therefore you do not need to anylize root crowns , try and grow out youre pathogen on a petri dish. Finally a state of the art test has hit the pumpkin world. Next we need to map the chromosomes. David

3/27/2008 10:39:34 AM

Pumpkintown, SC

We can dream can't we David, LOL. BF

3/27/2008 5:47:41 PM

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We've been innoculating diseases in petri dishes for putting greens for years. There is no reason that a good innoculation chamber can't be used the same way for our patch soils. All it takes is time & money. LOL

I'm dying to hear the results. Good find David!

3/27/2008 10:54:09 PM

Southeast

Actually Steve, DNA PCR testing is way more accurate than any culture tecniques.

3/29/2008 10:46:04 AM

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More costly too.

3/29/2008 8:47:30 PM