Microwaves are a highly utilized electromagnetic wave, used across a range of industries
including food processing, communications, in the development of novel medical treatments …

The activities of soil microbial communities are of critical importance to terrestrial ecosystem
functioning. The mechanisms that determine the interactions between soil microorganisms …

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of two simple methods involving use of heat for extraction
of bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) be used in molecular techniques like polymerase …

There is an increased interest in the extraction of nucleic acids from various environmental
samples, since molecular techniques allow less biased access to a greater portion of …

Most of the microorganisms in nature are inaccessible as they are uncultivable in the
laboratory. Metagenomic approaches promise the accessibility of the genetic resources and …

Aim: To establish a rapid, improved soil environmental DNA extraction and purification
protocol. Methods and Results: Three different soil DNA isolation and four purification …

We report for the first time the isolation of endophytic actinobacteria associated with wild
populations of the Chinese medicinal herb Thymus roseus Schipcz obtained from the arid …

Untreated wastewater is a risk factor for the spread of antibiotic resistance in the
environment. However, little is known about the contribution of untreated wastewater to the …

Rapid isolation of high-purity microbial genomic DNA is necessary for genome analysis. In
this study, the authors compared a one-hour procedure using a microwave with enzymatic …

We developed an improved protocol, allowing the simultaneous extraction of DNA and RNA
from soil using phenol-chloroform with subsequent column-based separation of DNA and …