Full-Service Plant Disease Diagnostics & Variety Identification By DNA Fingerprinting
CSP Labs provides both plant pathology and variety identification services for Grapevine and many other crops.
Variety Fingerprinting
We offer variety identification (variety fingerprinting) services for several crops. Our lab is able to create a reference genetic fingerprint of your material (seed or plant), store it in our database, and run comparisons to that reference as you submit subsequent samples for analysis. We have high throughput equipment including automated liquid handles for DNA extraction, Hydro cyclers for PCR and 96 capillary electrophoresis for fragment analysis. For Grapevine testing our lab uses SSR (simple sequence repeat) by capillary electrophoresis.
We also support many other crops and analysis types, such as SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) genotyping. Depending on the type of material (i.e. which crop, whether it’s seed or plant tissue, etc.), we select the appropriate technology to perform analysis. Our lab is equipped to perform either capillary electrophoresis (CE), Taqman genotyping, or Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP) techniques. We are able to adapt to customer requirements if a one technology is preferred over another.
Pathology Services
Our plant health lab provides fast diagnosis of plant diseases to help farm and nursery managers take corrective steps as quickly as possible. Results are available as quickly as 2-3 days. Our pathologists are happy to talk to you to learn more about what you’re seeing in the field or if you need input on developing a quality control program. Our customers include nurseries, growers, and consultants.
Testing With CSP Labs
We accept symptomatic and asymptomatic plant tissue and have the necessary permits for you to ship the tissue to our lab. We encourage our customers to discuss their needs with a specialist on our team so we can help you sample if necessary. You’ll be notified when your samples have arrived and when your results are available.
Available Tests
The methods that are applied and the target pathogens are highly dependent on your requirements and the sample. For crops like grapevines or strawberries there are some pathogens that we look for routinely. For these we offer our MultiScan which is a test panel to find those routine pathogens.
| MultiScan by PCR |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 1 – GLRaV1 |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 2 – GLRaV2 |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 3 – GLRaV3 |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 4 – GLRaV4 |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 5 – GLRaV5 |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 6 – GLRaV6 |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 7 – GLRaV7 |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 9 – GLRaV9 |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 10 – GLRaV10 |
| Grapevine leaf roll associated virus 11 – GLRaV11 |
| Grapevine leafroll associated virus 4 – carnelian |
| Grapevine leaf roll 2 red globe – GLRaV2-RG strain |
| Grapevine rupestris stem pitting virus – GRSPV |
| Grapevine fleck virus – GFkV |
| Grapevine fan leaf virus – GFLV |
| Grapevine yellow vein virus – GYVV (Tomato ringspot virus) |
| Grapevine vitivirus A – GVA |
| Grapevine vitivirus B – GVB |
| Grapevine vitivirus D – GVD |
| Grapevine vitivirus E – GVE |
| Grapevine vitivirus F – GVF |
| Grapevine syrah virus 1 – GSyV1 |
| Rupestris stem pitting associated virus syrah strain – RSPaV -Sy |
| Grapevine pinot gris virus – GPGV |
| Grapevine red blotch associated virus – GRBaV |
| Arabis mosaic virus – ArMV |
| Tobacco ring spot virus – TRSV |
| Xylella fastidiosa – Xf (Pierce’s disease) |
| Phytoplasma – MLO |
MultiScan by Culture |
| Elsinoe ampelina – Anthracnose |
| Guignardia bidwellii – Black rot |
| Armillaria mellea – Armillaria root rot |
| Cylindrocarpon/ Ilyonectria spp – Black foot disease |
| Campylocarpon spp. – Black foot disease |
| Cylindrocladiella spp. – Black foot disease |
| Botryosphaeria, Diplodia, Dothiorella, Lasiodiplodia, Neofusicoccum, Spencermartinsia, Sphaeropsis spp. – Botryosphaeria Dieback |
| Botrytis cinerea – Bunch rot and Blight |
| Rosellinia necatrix – Dematophora Root Rot |
| Plasmopara viticola – Downy mildew |
| Phaeomoniella chlamydosporum (and Pa. aleophilum; Teleomorph Togninia minima) – Petri Disease (Esca) |
| Eutypa lata (and spp.) – Eutypa Dieback |
| Phomopsis viticola – Cane and Leaf spot |
| Phymatotrichopsis omnivorum – Phymatotrichopsis root rot |
| Phytophthora spp. – Crown and Root rot |
| Colletotrichum gloeosporioides – Ripe Rot |
| Pseudopezicula tracheiphila – Angular leaf scorch (Rotbrenner, red fire) |
| Verticillium dahliae |
| Xylophilus ampelinus – Bacterial blight |
| Agrobacterium vitis – Crown gall |
Please call us if a test of your interest is not listed above.