Dear colleagues,
I have a bucket of carrot's inflorescence buds that were fixed with FAA, dehydrated and stored in methanol at -20°C for ca. 3 months. I did ISH with some of them that worked fine (so I assume RNA is there) but I decided to synthesize additional probes and I am running out of RNA stock. Could I rehydrate the samples, grind them in LN2 and proceed with Trizol isolation? Do you have any experience on that field?
I found some paper in which authors managed to extract good quality RNA from aquatic insects even from ethanol or acetone after prolonged to storage but plants are not exactly the same I suppose.
Best wishes
Jakub