PathoScan is a new piece of equipment that can test for crop diseases and have results within an hour or two instead of days.
Farmers and custom spray companies like it because the results come so fast that they can hit a disease before it inflicts more damage.
Ethan Done is the chief operating officer and co-founder of Saskatoon-based startup PathoScan Technologies. He and co-founder Tayab Soonro havei invented PathoBoxf which uses a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test called loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) .
Mitacs is providing funding.
Mitacs is, in turn, funded by Canada, Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon as well as Innovation PEI and Research Manitoba.
