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Novel Procedure for Improved Results in Soil Microbiome Analysis Using the DNeasy PowerSoil Pro Kit
17 Jul 2019This application note demonstrates that the DNeasy PowerSoil Pro Kit improves the process of soil DNA extraction over existing QIAGEN technology and other commercially available kits. The kit enables extraction of higher yields of pure, high-quality DNA from challenging soil samples, and results in higher alpha diversity in 16S rRNA sequencing.
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