Maintain and revive a comprehensive collection of commercial potato varieties in tissue culture. Perform pathogen testing on grower samples to help them stay in compliance with state, national, and international seed potato certification standards.

Maintain and revive a comprehensive collection of commercial potato varieties in tissue culture. Perform pathogen testing on grower samples to help them stay in compliance with state, national, and international seed potato certification standards.

The WSPCP Tissue Culture Laboratory provides disease-free tissue culture plantlets of cultivars already available in its collection. Please click the link:Potato Varieties material currently available from our program. Plantlets are typically propagated and mailed in test tubes or Magenta cubes.

Potato Virus, Fungal and Bacterial Eradication. The Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification (WSPC) Tissue Culture Laboratory will provide common pathogen eradication services in the form of disease-free plantlets for material submitted by a client.

Veronica Roman-Reyna, Renee Rioux, Brooke Babler, Taylor Klass, Jonathan Jacobs. 2023. Concept Note: Toward Metagenomic Sequencing for Rapid, Sensitive, and Accurate Detection of Bacterial Pathogens in Potato Seed Production. PhytoFrontiers Special Focus Issue Vol 3, No 1. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTOFR-04-22-0037-FI

Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Office. 106 Seventh Ave. Antigo WI 54409 Phone: 715-623-4039 Toll-free: 877-335-7333 FAX: 715-623-6970. Brooke Babler (Assistant Research Program Director) Cell: 608-886-6352. Jolene Spurgeon (Administrative Specialist) Office: 715-623-4039. Dianna Kessler (Field Inspector) Cell: 715-610-2640. Cole Lubinski ...

The Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Diagnostic Laboratory offers a variety of seed potato focused diagnostic services ranging from ELISA based testing to real-time PCR assays. Below is a general list of assays currently offered by our laboratory.

The Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program's goal is to provide potato farmers with seed potato planting stock that is healthy and without varietal mixture. We do this through inspections and laboratory testing of the seed potato crop and the …

Healthy seed potatoes are the key to success for potato growers and seed potato certification helps growers raise a profitable crop. Since 1913, the Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program has inspected and certified Wisconsin seed potatoes.

If interested in touring our tissue culture lab please contact us to discuss details. We are happy to provide informative tours to individuals or small/large groups. Training. We provide micro-propagation and diagnostic training opportunities to individuals or small groups.