+++ Christmas Break +++
Please note that due to our Christmas Break orders and requests received from
16 Dec 2024 to 7 Jan 2025 will be stored in our systems, but not processed further.
Shipping of pending purchase orders will start on 8 Jan 2025 in the order of their arrival at DSMZ.
Available resources
Please direct all enquiries regarding the ordering of plant viruses exclusively to plantvirus(at)dsmz.de. A short guideline on how to order can be downloaded here (German version).
The department of Plant Viruses offers a broad portfolio of plant viruses, antisera and plantvirus diagnostics.
Please use our online catalogue for your search.
Quality Assurance
The DSMZ Plant Virus Department has made great efforts in the past years to further expand the existing range of high quality antisera, comprehensively characterized virus isolates and excellent services. To provide proof of the high quality and reliability of our products we have recently been awarded accreditation as producer of reference materials. This accreditation by the national Germany accreditation body “Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH” (DAkkS), confirms that the DSMZ Plant Virus Department is competent under the terms of DIN EN ISO 17034:2017 to produce reference materials in the form of inoculum, nucleic acid-extracts and serological diagnostics of plant viruses.
For specific questions concerning the quality management and accreditation of the DSMZ Plant Virus Department, please contact:
Dr. Wulf Menzel
Phone: +49-531/2616-402
E-Mail: plantvirus(at)dsmz.de
Plant Virus Isolates
Descriptions of virus specimens are based on information provided by the contributors, the DSMZ staff, and advisors. The taxonomic classification of the respective virus is according to the current report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).
Antisera / Serological Reagents
All antisera and each batch of serological reagents is subject to strict quality control procedures, ensuring the highest possible quality and stability of our products.
Culture Authenticity
All plant virus materials kept at the DSMZ are subjected to extensive quality control procedures for cultural approval by the DSMZ staff. These include bio-assays on selected indicator plants, electron microscopical examinations, serological tests and all new accessions are at least partially sequenced prior to the release into the public collection. The sequence information is, if not deposited at GenBank with the corrisponding PV-number, available on request.