Soil Microbe Study Using Community DNA

Community DNA from soil helps scientists study microbial communities without relying only on culture tests. Traditional methods use dilution and plating on selective or differential media, or they use direct count assays. Direct counts show the total number of bacteria present, but they do not show how many populations are i...

Bacterial community DNA extraction is a process by which DNA is obtained from multiple bacterial species within a community during a single extraction procedure.

Traditional analyses of microbial communities in soil have usually involved cultural assays, utilizing dilution and plating methodology on different selective media. However, many...