STA Genetic Services offers Variety Marks, a molecular genotyping service to help you protect your elite material, ensure hybrid purity, and conduct variety identification. Each crop variety, like every person, has a unique fingerprint. STA Genetic Services has identified molecular markers for plants and developed processes to identify specific hybrids and varieties.

Our Variety Marks genotyping service has proven extremely useful for variety and hybrid verification and germplasm protection. For example, Variety Marks is valuable in situations where mislabeling is possible or the identification of seed mixtures must be verified by a third-party.

STA Genetic Services also employs its Variety Marks service to identify specific markers that can be used for hybrid purity and hybrid verification. Our testing methodology and results support your quality assurance measures by allowing greater confidence in the quality of seed produced.

Call Gene Hookstra, Ph.D. at 303.775.3928 or Russell Rasmussen, Ph.D. at 303.651.6417 or info@stalabs.com to request a Variety Marks test or DNA-based Hybrid Purity test.