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DNA from the Collections
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RBGE staff work with a wide range of taxa, including land plants, algae, fungi and lichens.
We also work with environmental samples, including soil and faeces.
Extraction from a wide phylogentic range of material, as well as from different tissue types (including leaf, flower, bark) and methods of preservation (fresh, silica, herbarium etc.). Assessment of DNA quantity and quality.