Canada: DNA tech to test health of fruit plants
Lawrence MacAulay announced Tuesday that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is leading two projects with multiple industry and research groups where new science will be used to find faster ways of determining if fruit plants are infected with viruses.
One project will test seeds, cuttings and bulbs imported to Canada for growing new varieties of plant, with the aim of reducing quarantine times from three years to one year.
The other project looks to use a single test to determine if strawberry plants have any of a number of viruses, reducing the time and cost of getting Canadian strawberry plants to markets.
Read more at the Toronto Star