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Plant Health Diagnostics is a key component on sustainable agriculture and forestry, and in phytosanitary legislation.
Having fast, reliable and accurate methods to screen your soil, plant, seeds or wood derivates is essential to ensure plant health standards and avoid the dissemination of diseases.
Yet it seems like the complexity of the matrixes, the diversity of the pathogenic agents and the costs of proper diagnostics, make this a less popular topic on the discussions about sustainable agriculture and in the quest to feed the world.

How does Plant Health Diagnostics actually contributes for current global society major challenges from different points of view? What more should be done to ensure fit to purpose, accurate and accessible diagnostics to farmers, ecologists in the world? What are the major technical challenges lying ahead?

To celebrate its 10 year anniversary, ClearDetections is facilitating a dedicated symposium to Plant Health Diagnostics. An unique opportunity to gather different stakeholders in the field and prompt the topic discussion.

The event will take place on 20th January, 2021, from 14h to 17h CET. It will be a hybrid event, depending on the current Covid measurements.

Register here!

 

ClearDetections is proud to announce that its manager Marta Santos Paiva was appointed Chairperson of European Plant Diagnostics Industry Association (EPDIA).
Together with partners Camilo Gianinazzi from IpadLab, Willem Stol from Wageningen Plant Research and Caroline Freye from Loewe Biochemica. They compose the new board of EPDIA and will be responsible for the development of the association in the coming 2 years.

To the new board and to EPDIA, ClearDetections wishes a lot of Success!

Find out more about EPDIA and its role on the Plant Diagnostics Industry by visiting their website: https://www.epdia.eu/

We proudly announce:

Irene Cabal Blanco honorable third place on the contest Plant Health TV promoted by Euphresco!

During her internship at ClearDetections she made an excellent animation video explaining the topic she has working on: diagnostic of Panama Disease (Foc TR4) in Banana. Irene continues to work closely in Fusarium TR4 to help banana farmers and phytosanitary authorities with diagnostic of this threat.

Watch the prized video here.

 

 

We updated our manual versions referring to products related with Panama Disease FOC TR4  and Banana Plant DNA extraction.

We made them more clear and fine-tuned aspects to improve your user experience.

We kindly invite you to download them here today and start using them. For further questions or information please do not hesitate to contact us.

Do you wish to get familiar with DNA extraction and Real-Time PCR Diagnostics using ClearDetections techniques? That is possible by arranging a training session.

Do you need assistance to set-up our technology in a laboratory? We can design you a tailor-made program to facilitate this.

My name is Marta Santos and I am looking forward to discuss and to work together to find what suits you best! Reach out via marta.santos@cleardetections.com or +31 6 15063020.