China: Nanosphere seed potato analyzer identifies dangerous viruses in 5 minutes

As part of import substitution, Chinese scientists have developed a tool for express diagnostics of seed potatoes, which successfully identifies four particularly dangerous crop viruses. They shared their development with countries participating in the international One Belt, One Road initiative. The AgroXXI.ru portal has read an article published by the Chinese National Center for the Dissemination of Agricultural Technologies about a new tool for the potato industry: “Chinese scientists have successfully developed and approved by an expert group a nanosphere immunochromatographic kit for the rapid diagnosis of 4 types of potato viruses (virus Y, virus M , virus S and virus A). The kit allows you to obtain results within 5 minutes and has good detection specificity, that is, it does not react with other potato viruses other than the target virus, and the detection limit of target viruses in plant juices can reach 1000-fold dilution. Thus, Chinese scientists have made a ...