If I had a closet full of logs, I’d already be working on that one.  That particular question, as well as other ‘stress -> higher M’ experiments or skin vs pulp vs core yield, can  be easily answered, in a reliable/repeatable way; without significant technical knowledge, in-depth methods, or fancy equipment, using small samples.

This tek can open a lot of doors, with imaginative thought.

In the garden itself, if this can be micronized, imagine taking a small cork borer plug or skin scraping, extracting in a tiny test tube, then doing a titration from a burette, and making decisions about culling, harvesting, breeding. 

I don’t have the expertise to design this myself, but this tek may have the potential to be developed that way by someone who does.

5 ingredients, a few processing steps, quick turnaround, repeatability make this very exploitable for assay purposes. At a minimum, it can provide small quantities of product to standardize/calibrate more sophisticated assay techniques.  But, perhaps those wouldn’t be necessary.