Is Electrophoresis Genetic Purity Analysis more accurate than field grow-outs?
Grow-out testing requires more time (an entire growth cycle) to achieve results and the results are subjective and dependent on environmental conditions that may not be consistent with the conditions where the seed product will be planted. Isozyme testing can give you results in two weeks and the results are not subjective since they are based on well defined patterns of protein-based markers.
