STA Genetic Services offers Molecular Marker and Hybrid Purity Services. Our Molecular Marker Services assist plant breeders throughout the world in quickly and accurately selecting critical traits that enhance plant breeding programs for the agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, and ornamental industries. Molecular Markers also help quality assurance managers with vital decisions about hybrid, varietal and inbred purity.

The application of DNA-based markers allows you to identify physical characteristics at the molecular level, thus lending a scientific hand in creating and replicating elite varieties. STA Genetic Services can support your plant breeding and seed production programs by applying molecular markers for trait selection and mapping, or variety and hybrid genotyping. This gives you critical information to greatly improve the quality of field and vegetable crops, reduce product development time, and ensure proper seed variety identification and protection.

We provide a high price-to-quality return on your DNA analysis investment. Our dedicated and skilled staff members can quickly understand your individual program needs, and help you isolate favorable recombinations and segregation patterns that will set your breeding program apart. In-house experts at STA provide an analysis report along with consultation that is immediately applicable to your program. As with all STA Laboratories testing, confidentially is maintained to protect you and your proprietary information.

For those who require a dedicated molecular marker laboratory with plant breeding expertise and knowledge, STA Genetic Services offers its unique Breeding Edge Advantage Program that provides ongoing on-site consultation, literature reviews, and technology integration to help you realize the greatest value from your molecular marker program.

As a high-throughput Molecular Marker laboratory, we offer the following services:

• Marker Assisted Selection – Trait Marks
• Marker Assisted Backcrossing – Genetic Marks
• Quantitative and Qualitative Trait Mapping – QLT Marks
• Molecular Genotyping – Variety Marks

Additionally, STA Genetic Services offers state-of-the-art iso-electric focusing (IEF) Hybrid Purity. IEF is a high-resolution protein analysis technique that is efficient and accurate with proven success in determining the hybridity of a seed lot. The results help seed companies around the world determine the genetic quality of their hybrid varieties.

Our R&D program continues to develop innovative processing and electrophoretic methods that ensure reliable and reproducible results. IEF technology may also be utilized for varietal identification and “fingerprinting” of inbred lines, cultivars and other proprietary genetics in complete confidence.