Foundation Plant Services at UC Davis provides such a service - http://fps.ucdavis.edu/dnamain.cfm -
let us know how this works with your patent application - I doubt it will substitute for any of the phenological observations that are required, but if they allow it to remain as part of the application I don’t see the downside to having it in the record - it’s labor intensive and a bit frustrating to have to use the form developed nearly 100 years ago to demonstrate the uniqueness of a variety when we have this technology that can do it definitively and cheaply - David Doud - grower, Indiana - > On Sep 19, 2016, at 9:48 AM, lee elliott <pippm...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I am in the process of applying for patents on some new apple varieties and > think it might be a good idea to include a DNA genotype sequence to the > "uniqueness" description, Has anyone done this and what lab can do this? I > searched google and found Biogentics Lab offer this service, anybody have any > experience here? What should this cost? Lee Elliott, Upstart Nursery, > Winchester, Illinois > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.com > http://virtualorchard.com/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list apple-crop@virtualorchard.com http://virtualorchard.com/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop