Total RNA Isolation

01 January 2013 1 7K Report

I have to isolate the Total RNA from a very small amount of plant tissue. So what do you think, which kit is suitable to use to extract the RNA from this small amount?

Milica Milutinovic

http://www.lifetechnologies.com/order/catalog/product/12322012?ICID=search-product

I am using this reagent for RNA isolation form Arabidopsis siliques and from ~50mg of tissue I get up to 4 ug of RNA.

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