BioTechniques Vol. 70 No. 2 | Benchmarks

A low-cost platform suitable for sequencing-based recovery of natural variation in understudied plants

Method Summary

The authors describe a suite of low-cost, do-it-yourself methods for field collection of plant tissues, extraction of genomic DNA suitable for next-generation sequencing and homemade agarose gel documentation suitable for DNA quantification. These methods enable the collection and preparation of samples for genomic analysis in regions with limited infrastructure.

Authors: Howard-Till R, Osorio C & Till J.

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