plant RNA extraction method

[Stuart Brown]

I need some help with a method for plant total RNA extraction.

We have been using a classic method using phenol and LiCl    
in a Tris/SDS  grinding buffer, followed by chloroform
extractions, 2M LiCl precipitation, and EtOH pptn.
This gives fair to poor results with lots of sample-to-sample
and day to day variability.

I just tried out a guanidium thiocyanate method with very poor
resuslts- basically my first isopropanol pellet (after 1st 
chloroform extraction) contained a huge amount of junk which
refused to redissolve.

I need a plant method that is fairly quick and amenable to
scale up for handling lots of samples per day.

	-Stu

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Stuart M. Brown                             If you can remain cool when all 
U. of Manitoba, Dept. Plant Science         Around you are in panic,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
browns at ccu.umanitoba.ca            Then you surely misunderstand the situation