3 Rivers Biotech Identifies Root Tissue from Mature Plants as the Most Reliable to Detect Hop Latent Viroid (HLVd)

3R, a leading plant tissue culture company, and it’s pathogen testing subsidiary Genie Lab announced that after an extensive study of HLVd distribution in infected plants, testing of root samples from mature plants dramatically improves the detection of the viroid, thus limiting the potentiality of false negatives.