Services

GenServe Laboratories™ offers DNA testing services that can benefit a range of clients including biotech companies, plant breeders, insurance companies, and individual farmers.

Our lab is capable of identifying seed lineage, evaluating the success of transgenic varieties, and highlighting genes that indicate disease or performance traits.

For livestock producers, our applications include parentage verification, chromosome analysis, and the detection of genetic mutation or disease.

Services providedby GenServe Laboratories™ include:

• High-throughput DNA testing of transgenic plants
• DNA fingerprinting of crops and microorganisms to establish identities and assess relatedness between individual DNA samples
• Identification and screening of plant diseases through molecular markers
• Development of new molecular testing technologies on a contract basis
• Paternity testing for bovine, llama, alpaca, sheep, elk, goat, and bison
• Custom genotyping
• Coat colour
• Polled status testing
• Chondrodysplasia testing
• Bovine Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency (BLAD) testing
• Protoporphyria (PROTO) testing
• Freemartin Determination
• Kappa-Cassein/Beta-Lactogolbulin testing
• Karotyping
• Elk hybrid status testing

GenServe also offers clone animal identification and verification, enhanced traceability, proof of origin for bio-safety protocols, and marker-assisted selection for quantitative production traits. The lab can also offer quality control for food safety and value-added products as well as forensic services like those utilized during the BSE outbreak.

GenServe Laboratories™ Fact Sheet

Contact us:
GenServe Laboratories™
Saskatchewan Research Council
125 - 15 Innovation Boulevard
Saskatoon, SK   S7N 2X8

Ph: 306-933-7700
Toll-free: 1-866-420-2293
Fx: 306-933-5505
Email: genserve@src.sk.ca