Tree research has many challenges – do not let DNA isolation to be one of them
By: Modhumita Dasgupta, PhD, Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding I joined for my doctoral research in sorghum in 1994 in Prof. Ulaganthan’s laboratory at Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Osmania University, India. In those days, nucleic acid isolation was predominantly done using manual methods. Genomic DNA isolation could be done with ease, while