basmati rice authentication (1)

A new method has been developed to authenticate Basmati rice. The new duplex drop ddPCR assay is based on a previously published real-time PCR (rtPCR) method. The new method is able to screen for non-Basmati rice contents in the range of 1 % or higher. As digital PCR does not require calibrators for the quantification, the method is more economic, compared to rtPCR or microsatellite analysis. The new method gives good correlation with microsatellite analysis.

The paper can be purchased at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00217-015-2599-3

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