How to open the treasure chest? Optimising DNA extraction from herbarium specimens.

Herbarium collections are potentially an enormous resource for DNA studies, but the use of herbarium specimens in molecular studies has thus far been slowed down by difficulty in obtaining amplifiable DNA. Here we compare a set of commercially available DNA extraction protocols and their performance...

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Main Authors: Tiina Särkinen, Martijn Staats, James E Richardson, Robyn S Cowan, Freek T Bakker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3429509?pdf=render