A standardized protocol for genomic DNA isolation from Terminalia arjuna for genetic diversity analysis
Author
Sarwat,Maryam
Singh Negi,Madan
Lakshmikumaran,Malathi
Kumar Tyagi,Akhilesh
Das,Sandip
Shankar Srivastava,Prem
Abstract
For studying genetic diversity in natural populations of Terminalia, a medicinal plant, our attempts to isolate high quality DNA using several previously reported protocols and even modifications were unsuccessful. We therefore combined CTAB based isolation, and column based purification step, to isolate DNA from Terminalia arjuna. The DNA isolated using this standardized protocol was high in quality and suitable for restriction digestion and generation of random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP).