Services and Fees
Services and Fees
A report and invoice will be sent to the email address provided on your sample submission form once your sample is analyzed. We reserve the right to change our prices at any time without further notice.
Please contact the clinic if you have specific detection needs not mentioned here.
Diagnostics
General Diagnostics
$20 internal (CSU faculty, staff, students and extension) per sample, $35 external per sample
- General Diagnostics includes visual observation, microscopy and other basic tests (moist incubation chamber, morphological identification of fungi, bacterial streaming etc.)
- Applies to all samples and is independent of other fees.
Culture-based identification of fungi or bacteria to the genus level
$60 per sample
- Service includes isolation, culturing, DNA extraction, PCR, sequencing and BLAST analysis for genus level identification
Molecular – Established conventional PCR
$70 base fee + $35 each additional sample
Available tests:
- Pythium
- Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens flaccumfaciens (Cff)
- Pantoea (P. ananatis, P. agglomerans, P. stewartii)
- Beet curly top virus (BCTV)
Molecular – Established qPCR or RT-PCR
$80 base fee + $40 (qPCR) or $45 (RT-PCR) each additional sample
- Available tests:
- Phytoplasma
- Xylella fastidiosa
- Pythium dissotocum
- Hop latent viroid
Serological – Immunostrip
$20 per sample
Available tests:
- Xanthomonas
- Phytophthora
- Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV)
- Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV)
- Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)
- Poty virus group (Poty)
- Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV)
- Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV)
Serological – ELISA
$60 first sample $15 each additional sample
Please contact the lab for a list of available tests
Tree wilt pathogens:
- Dutch elm disease $60
- Service includes sampling of plant material and culturing for morphological identification
- Samples take up to two weeks to grow
- Verticillium wilt $60
- Service includes sampling of plant material and culturing for morphological identification
- Samples take up to two weeks to grow
- Pine Wilt Nematode $90 base fee, $40 each additional sample
- Service includes sampling of material and PCR based identification
Insect Identification
$20 per species
Plant Identification
Morphological ID: $20 per species identified (morphological ID may not be possible depending on the time of year/stage of plant)
Molecular ID: $50 for the first sample + $20 each additional
- Service includes DNA extraction, PCR, sequencing and BLAST analysis for genus level identification
Nematode analysis
We are not currently conducting nematode analyses.
Please contact: University of Idaho, University of Florida or Agnema
Wheat Diagnostics
Contact us for special pricing of disease panels (multiple disease screenings)
Mosaic virus complex
- Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV)
- Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV)
- High plains wheat mosaic virus (HPWMoV)
Other viruses
- Soilborne wheat mosaic virus
- Wheat spindle streak mosaic virus (WSSMV)
- Barley dwarf yellow virus (BDYV)
- Cereal yellow dwarf virus CYDV, RPV, PAV
- Brome mosaic virus (BMV)
- Potyvirus group (Poty)
Other pathogens (bacterial/fungal)
- Phytoplasma sp.
- Bacterial leaf streak (Xanthomonas)
- Tan Spot
- Stagonospora leaf blotch
- Stripe rust
- Root / crown rot
- Fusarium head blight (head scab)
- Cephalosporium stripe, smut
Potato Diagnostics
Contact us for special pricing of disease panels (multiple disease screenings)
Colorado Potato Certification Testing
Our lab is certified Potato Certification Service (PCS) to provide the following tests:
- PVY (Potato virus Y) direct tuber testing
Other available tests
- PVY (Potato virus Y)
- PMTV (Potato mop-top virus) and TRV (Tobacco rattle virus)
- Powdery Scab Soil testing Spongospora subterranea
- Black leg / soft rot Dickeya spp. and Pectobacterium spp.
- Late Blight Phytophthora infestans
- Verticillium Wilt Verticillium dahlia
- Pythium Leak Pythium ultimum
- Pink Rot Phytophthora erythroceptica
- Fusarium Wilt / Dry Rot Fusarium spp.
- Black Dot Colletotrichum coccodes
- Silver scurf Helminthosporium solani
- Potato Greenhouse Viruses: PLRV, PotLV, PVA, PVM, PVS, PVX, PVY, TSWV
Payment Options
Payment is not required prior to service. Invoices can be paid via check or with credit card.
Please make all checks payable to Colorado State University.
- Mail payment to:
Plant Diagnostic Clinic
CSU Spur-Terra Building
4780 National Western Drive
Denver, CO 80216
Online payment link for credit cards: Pay Invoice – Other Department – CSU Ag Sci Store (nbsstore.net)
- Select “Plant Diagnostic Lab” as the Organization from the dropdown menu.
- Enter the Invoice # and/or Invoice Date. (This is helpful for us to know who to credit but it is not required.)
- Enter Name and/or Company
- Plant Diagnostic Clinic
- Total on invoice
- Add to cart
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Contact Us
Hours and Location
Monday – Thursday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Friday: By appointment only
Terra Building –
CSU Spur