HELP HELP HELP needed with RNA extraction

[Paul A Bucciaglia]

I don't have any experienc with guanidine-based RNA extractions, but I 
have had pretty good luck with either the standard phenol:chloroform 
based extraction or a modified protocol by Schultz et al (Plant Mol. 
Biol Reporter 12 (4), p310. 1994).  This  worked very well when extracting 
RNA from Populus leaves, although I didn't try any woody tissues. Doesn't 
require a CsCl step, which I personally hate doing.  RNA was clean, 
intact, and reverse transcribed well.  

Good luck,

Paul Bucciaglia