Diagnostics

The Arkansas Clean Plant Center provides comprehensive testing services to the agricultural industry, including PCR analysis, HTS testing, and our patent-pending virus-mimicking artificial positive controls, or ViMAPCs. The fee structure is listed below.

Diagnostics Services & Fees

• $275 set-up fee for fewer than 24 samples
• $88/sample for the nucleic acid extraction, making cDNA (reverse transcription) and carrying out the PCR for the internal control reactions to ensure the quality of the nucleic acid is a suitable template for the PCR reaction, and $33 for each virus test completed.
  Examples:
  • If a sample is tested for 10 viruses, the cost would be $275+$88+$33*10= $693.
  • If 10 samples are tested for 10 viruses, the cost would be $275+[$88+(33*10)]*10=$4,455.
  • If 40 samples were tested for 10 viruses, the total cost per sample would be [$88+(33*10)]*40=$16,720.
• HTS testing using Illumina: $750/sample run including preparation, sequencing, and bioinformatics analyses.
• HTS testing using Illumina with validation of positives for pathogens of concern using PCR: $1100/sample.
• HTS testing using MinION: $330/sample run including preparation, sequencing, bioinformatics analyses.
• HTS testing using MinION with validation of positives for pathogens of concern using PCR: $660/sample.
• Breeding accessions – beyond those covered by NCPN funded personnel and reagents: Clean-up/testing: $8,800/clean-up round, Maintenance: $1,550/year.
• Controlled Import Permit: $5,000 per cultivar assayed. This includes four high-throughput sequencing (HTS) runs using Illumina technology, followed by PCR validation of any detected pathogens of concern. Learn more about our standard operating procedure for Control Import Permits.
• Plants distribution: $330/plant or TC StarPack + shipping.

Virus Mimicking Artificial Positive Control (ViMAPC)

The cost for a Virus Mimicking Artificial Positive Control (ViMAPC) is $4,000 when based on published primer sequences and $5,000 when primers are developed by ACPC personnel.

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