Queensland Fruit Fly (Bactrocera tryoni) LAMP Detection Kit

Queensland Fruit Fly (Bactrocera tryoni) LAMP Detection Kit

Bactrocera tryoni, the Queensland fruit fly, is Australia’s most economically damaging horticultural pest, costing the industry around $300 million annually. It attacks over 100 fruit and vegetable crops, including stone fruit, citrus, tomatoes, and capsicum, across eastern Australia, with occasional incursions into Western Australia. Females sting fruit to lay eggs, and larvae feed internally, causing tissue breakdown, bacterial infection, rotting, and premature fruit drop. The pest also severely restricts Australian produce exports due to strict international quarantine and phytosanitary requirements.

Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) is a molecular biology technique that copies DNA or RNA at a single, constant temperature. By eliminating the rapid heat cycling required by traditional PCR, this method relies on specialized strand-displacement polymerases to unzip and replicate genetic material.

This biological approach removes the need for expensive, bulky thermal cyclers, allowing assays to run on simple, low-cost heating equipment. Delivering highly sensitive results in just 20 to 30 minutes, isothermal amplification provides a fast, affordable, and exceptionally portable solution for field testing and decentralized point-of-care diagnostics.

The Queensland Fruit Fly (Bactrocera tryoni) LAMP Detection Kit simplifies detection of Queensland Fruit Fly nucleic acid by amplifying target DNA at a constant temperature. 

• All-in-one box: reagents and plasticware included
  
  
• Results in under 30 min
  
  

Platform: Genie LITE, Genie III and Genie HT

Application: Nucleic Acid detection of Queensland Fruit Fly

Target Analyte: Insect DNA

Technology: LAMP