Purple City Labs

Infectious Pathogen Silently Spreads To Over 90% Of California's Cannabis Farms, Destroying THC Production

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.

This Company Developed Assay For Fast In-House Testing Of Hop Latent Viroid

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.