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. 2014 Jan 3;9(1):e84743. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084743

Figure 3. Reproducibility of the Luminex MagPlex-TAG pospiviroid array over ten independent tests.

Figure 3

One sample of Potato spindle tuber viroid (isolate #3077695) was tested in ten independent reactions over several days. Mean natural log (ln) median fluorescence intensity (MFI) values are plotted; error bars show plus or minus (±) one standard deviation. The horizontal bars plotted on each of the bars shows the detection threshold obtained from our kernel density estimation method, for each assay of the array. The small standard deviation of the ln(MFI) values for positively reacting assays in the array (PSTVd, PospUni and PlantIC) demonstrate the high level of precision of the multiplexed bead-based array.