Does anyone know how to extract the RNA from a very small amount of plant tissues?

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Christian Praetorius

I think it should be possible to use the same routes like for other tissues. Freeze you material, homogenzie it with Trizol (or any other Tri-reagent) and then isolate the RNA following the protocol. I have done this very often for mouse samples, works very good.

Oliver Berkowitz

For very small tissue amounts magnetic beads work well