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sandman420
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Commercial lab that can test samples for positive ID of mycoviruses and other contaminants? 2
#27758463 - 05/01/22 07:39 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Is there a lab that one could send some agar samples to for some kind of professional high quality testing for various piggy back contaminants and mycoviruses?
Is that a thing?
Like could they do DNA tests and see what up pretty easy or what?
Edited by sandman420 (05/01/22 07:40 AM)
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stemseed

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Re: Commercial lab that can test samples for positive ID of mycoviruses and other contaminants? [Re: sandman420]
#28120781 - 01/02/23 07:36 AM (1 year, 25 days ago) |
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Bump. Anyone?
Or I suppose you could do some pcr testing and compare result to genbank?
Edited by stemseed (01/02/23 07:38 AM)
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stemseed

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Re: Commercial lab that can test samples for positive ID of mycoviruses and other contaminants? [Re: stemseed]
#28120837 - 01/02/23 08:27 AM (1 year, 25 days ago) |
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For anyone interested, I found a good resource for identifying contamination with pcr:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26489902/fpart/all
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Shaggy Shaman
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Re: Commercial lab that can test samples for positive ID of mycoviruses and other contaminants? [Re: sandman420]
#28130991 - 01/08/23 04:27 PM (1 year, 19 days ago) |
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I remember that Sporeworks had some fine print on their PE page a while back about finding out that they had a mycovirus in their line. I'm guessing they found someone who could test, maybe?
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Edited by Shaggy Shaman (01/08/23 04:27 PM)
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Timestop413
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Re: Commercial lab that can test samples for positive ID of mycoviruses and other contaminants? [Re: Shaggy Shaman]
#28152879 - 01/22/23 09:16 PM (1 year, 5 days ago) |
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Quote:
Shaggy Shaman said: I remember that Sporeworks had some fine print on their PE page a while back about finding out that they had a mycovirus in their line. I'm guessing they found someone who could test, maybe?
Do you know anything more about this?
This is from their site currently Comments: Spores are from a source culture subjected to a 3+ week heat therapy regime designed to eliminate viral infections in Agaricus bisporus. Although there was no "hard" evidence that the Penis Envy strain was ever infected with a virus, the therapy appears to have had some positive effects. Unfortunately, spore production is not noticeably improved.
What does this mean and are they alluding to the idea that there "was" problems? I am no expert but, finding "hard" evidence of a mycovirus I assume would not be easy, but things not fruiting as they should would be much easier to spot. Is there any more info on this or has anyone talked to them?
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ichnoguy
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Re: Commercial lab that can test samples for positive ID of mycoviruses and other contaminants? [Re: sandman420]
#28153741 - 01/23/23 12:11 PM (1 year, 4 days ago) |
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i mean for niche things you might consider a university, they may do this kind of thing.
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FilthyLisa
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Re: Commercial lab that can test samples for positive ID of mycoviruses and other contaminants? [Re: ichnoguy]
#28160784 - 01/28/23 04:20 AM (11 months, 23 days ago) |
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where exactly are you located?
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