Purple City Labs

A hop-latent viroid (HLVd), an infectious pathogen, is devastating cannabis farms in California by infiltrating plants and ruining entire crops just before they’re ready for harvest. By causing a 30% reduction in plant weight, HLVd destroys THC production, clearly a devastating...

Purple City Labs, a plant molecular biology company developing germplasm and technologies for the management of breeding programs and nurseries, is rolling out a reverse transcription- loop mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) based assay for testing and surveillance of hop latent viroid....