Peace of mind isn’t a strain you can cultivate. Unseen threats like pathogens and contaminants can lurk in your crop, jeopardizing your harvest and reputation. Regular testing unlocks a wealth of information, empowering you to optimize growth, maximize yield, and safeguard your investment.
While there are a million and one how-to articles on how to keep your plants happy and healthy, testing is always a great first line of defense. Testing throughout the crop’s lifecycle can help prevent viruses and viroids from causing damage and revenue loss. Once physical signs of disease are present, it requires additional labor, supplies, and money to correct the problem.
Testing kits offer rapid, convenient solutions for initial screening. They are an essential tool for growers and processors to monitor product quality during cultivation and processing stages. However, for detailed characterization, and precise quantification, lab-based testing remains the gold standard due to its accuracy, scope, and adherence to quality standards.
When people think about cannabis testing, they often picture compliance or regulatory testing. Rather, Verne Bio is a biotech company focused on developing quick, scalable genetic and pathogen testing for the Cannabis Market. Regular on site kit and lab testing with Verne BioAnalytics not only provides the insights you need but also recommended remedial solutions to boost production and ensure quality and safety.
Rooted in a strong integration between bioinformatics and wet-lab testing, Verne Bio administers high quality plant genetic or pathogen testing kits, conducting internal R & D to develop genetic assays while manufacturing kits for other growers and labs to run assays, thus providing quick, scalable genetic and pathogen testing to farmers in the cannabis industry.
Their vision is to be able to help the world’s smallest to the largest farmers with their risk, productivity, and bottom line. They achieve this by identifying the risks associated with growing through genetic and pathogen testing, implementing remediation to remove or reduce those risks, and prevention through genetic crop steering.
At Verne Bio, the goal is to help put the control of pathogen testing into the growers hands.
Nathan Johnson, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder and CEO of VERNE Bioanalytics, an innovator in cannabis genetic and pathogen testing and analysis. Nathan’s career has spanned a number of industries including pharmaceuticals, oncology research, and animal model development with prestigious organizations such as Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and H3 Biomedicine. In addition, Nathan has over 15 prestigious peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Nature and Cell. He holds a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) from Worcester, MA, an MS in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Missouri, and a BS in biology and a minor in chemistry from Evangel University in Springfield, MO.
He took the typical framework that is required for testing, which is a lab and scientist and tried to change it so a non-scientist could run the test. And what resulted was a grower could pop some seeds, test the plant and within 30 minutes know if it’s a male and whether there was any hop latent viroid at a reasonable cost.
Viruses and viroids can begin to impact a plant before physical symptoms begin to appear. These impacts can cause damage that will impact the health of the plant and the outcome of the final product. Even when symptoms begin to rise to the surface, they could begin in an area that is not seen. For example, the root system of the plant.
Verne BioAnalytics supplies testing kits designed to be high quality while providing accurate results. Identifying whether your problem is a nutrient or pathogen problem, a mold or a virus, or narrowing down nutrient deficiencies or excesses is the first step. Determining the most effective course of action to solve your problem is where Verne BioAnalytics excels.
Contact Cultivation Warehouse and we can set up a free consultation to discover how Verne Bio on-site testing kits and expert lab analysis can help you cultivate confidence and cultivate quality.
