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Enriching plant microbiota for a metagenomic library construction.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2008
Wang Hao-Xin, Geng Zhao-Liang, Zeng Ying, Shen Yue-Mao
Abstract excerpt
Plant microbiota (the microorganisms that live in any associations with plant tissues) represents a rather unexplored area of metagenomic research compared with soils and oceans. Constructing a metagenomic library for plant microbiota is technically challenging. Using all the biomass without pre-enrichment could lead to vast proportions of the host plant DNA in the metagenomic library, doubtless obliterating the...
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