Dear Scientists,
Hopefully, you all are well.
My work is on pathogen related gene family in plants. I am performing PCR from last 4 months and getting results on and off. I am wondering that once I have the results and very next day, when I try to reproduce, all my efforts go wrong and don't get any result.
I was using PCR master mix from ThermoScientific and successfully screened 92 different wheat varieties. Then I wanted to reproduce the result for sequencing but went in vain. I switched to Taq Pol (thermo) but in vain, changed water many times (nuclease free water by thermo, injection water) but results are the same and then I switched to water from RNA isolation kit and finally got results.
After that I got some results for other two primer pairs just once and now I am trying to reproduce again and again for sequencing purpose but not getting the same results.
What could be the problem, I have diluted the primers with slandered primer dilution protocol.
added water to powdered primers
Stock solution:
55.1 nmol primer conc. x 10 = 551 ul of nuclease free water.
Working solution:
10 ul from primer stock soln. to 90 ul of nuclease free water
Using 2ul of each forwd and revrs primers, 2ul of Template.
Have performed gradient many times, specific temperatures many times but not getting results.
Performing all the steps on ice.
I don't know the reason why?