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Does anyone know why sequencing is not used to QC such seeds before releasing them?
by ros86 6y ago
Does anyone know why sequencing is not used to QC such seeds before releasing them?
- pjc50 6y agoExpensive and hard to know what you're looking for?
- ros86 6y agoI'm wondering whether that's indeed the case. It seems that at least some genotype has been identified to cause such a phenotype (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6213/1084 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6213/1084). If you know what to look for it would just be a couple of bucks to Sanger sequence it. (Then you don't even have to sequence it by e.g. Illumina, which would still be just a couple of hundred bucks per batch). I don't know what margins they get for these kind of products, but I guess a recall will be quite expensive as well.