Independent plant diagnostics

Know what’s in your seed before it’s in the ground.

Independent seed-health and plant-pathogen diagnostics for vegetable seed companies and growers — we coordinate the right tests across labs and turn the results into a decision you can act on.

Genomics, bioinformatics, and molecular-biology expertise — in the UC Davis / Sacramento corridor.

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The cost of an unanswered question

  • A seed lot can carry a pathogen you can’t see — and one infected lot can compromise a planting or a shipment.
  • Test results arrive as raw data, not decisions. What does a positive actually mean for this lot?
  • No single lab runs every test for every crop and pathogen — and the busiest tests can sit in long queues. Knowing where to send what, and when, is its own problem.

What we do

Seed-health testing is spread across many specialized labs, each covering only part of the picture. We work across that network — coordinating the right tests, then reading every result against what we see across labs and lots. That cross-lab vantage is the part no single lab can give you.

Advisory

Genomics and plant-pathology expertise applied to your decision — which pathogens matter for your crop, and what to screen for.

Interpretation

We make sense of test results and turn them into a decision-ready answer for the lot in front of you.

Brokerage

We coordinate the right test at the right lab — routing around the scope gaps and backlogs of any single facility. Lab-agnostic by design: we work for your decision, not one lab.

Veriphyte is independent and lab-agnostic. We focus on vegetable seed health today; grapevine virus screening is available as a specialized engagement.

Who we are

Veriphyte’s work rests on its people, based in the UC Davis / Sacramento agricultural corridor.

Molecular Biology, PhD

Bioinformatics · Data Science & AI · Software Engineering

Plant Genomics, PhD

Agronomy · Plant Genetics · High-Throughput Sequencing

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Tell us about the crop and the question — we’ll tell you how we can help.