BIOpick - Complete Potato Sampling Set

BIOpick - Your Potato Sampling Device!

BIOpick is a device for collecting heel core samples from potato tubers (e.g., for testing quarantine bacterial diseases such as ring rot caused by Clavibacter and brown rot caused by Ralstonia). It makes coring more ergonomic allowing collection and transfer of up to 200 heel end cores into a 50 ml collection tube. The sample collection can be done manually or semi-automatically by connecting the BIOpick to a lab mixer through the available adapter. 

This complete BIOpick sampling kit includes:

• x3 BIOpick sampling devices
• x1 adapter for semi-automatic operation
• x3 BIOpick cleaning brushes 

1min 20sec Youtube Video: Introducing BIOpick

Application: Collection of potato heel end cores

Size of Core: ~4mm (diameter) x ~9mm (length)

Weight of Core: ~0.1g per core

Material: Nickel-plated stainless steel

• Time-saving
• Ergonomic
• Reusable / Washable
• Flexible use: Manual or Semi-Automatic
• High throughput: up to 20cores/min

Additional Cleaning Brushes and BIOpicks also available.