Quick Miniprep for Plant DNA Isolation

Abstract

INTRODUCTIONThis procedure describes a quick miniprep for plant DNA isolation. It yields a small quantity of poorly purified DNA. However, many samples can be processed in a short time. When used with Arabidopsis, the method generally provides DNA of sufficient quality for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of cleaved amplified polymorphic sequences (CAPS) and simple sequence length polymorphism (SSLP) markers. Repeated freeze-thaw cycles should be avoided, because they result in samples that will no longer work as PCR templates.