Verne Bioanalytics

  For a long time, cannabis farmers have been puzzled about the mystery of "duds" among clonal strains. Hop Latent Viroid Test Kit (HLVd) was recently discovered in cannabis, providing much-needed insight into this time-consuming and frustrating issue. Good sanitation procedures and attention to biosecurity will go a long way toward preventing the spread of HLVd, which is usually disseminated by mechanical means. Collaboration between Santa Barbara, California's Glass House Farms, and Verne Bioanalytics led to the identification of the Hop Latent Viroid Test Kit (HLVd) in cannabis. Plant Disease is the premier worldwide journal covering novel, emerging, and established plant diseases, and the August 2019 issue will detail our findings and the strategies we used to get here. We verified a second finding after identifying HLVd and doing our tests. The Issue at Glass House Farms Graham Farrar, who runs a manufacturing facility just outside of Santa Barbara, California, obse...