Copper (II) acetate improves the quality of pear (Pyrus) DNA during extraction

摘要

Isolation of high-quality DNA from Pyrus is particularly difficult because of high endogenous levels of polysaccharides, phenolics, and other organic constituents that interfere with DNA isolation and purification. Presence of phenolic compounds caused browning of tissue and supernatant during the extraction process, despite supplementation with PVP, as suggested by standard methods. By modifying the CTAB extraction procedure of Aldrich and Cullis (1993) by including copper (II) acetate treatment, we obtained high-quality DNA. Copper (II) acetate enabled fixation and removal of tannins. The DNA yield from this procedure is high (up to 1.25 μg of DNA/mg of leaf tissue). This DNA is completely digestible with restriction endonucleases and suitable for generation of molecular markers, such as random-amplified polymorphic DNA and amplified fragment length polymorphism analyses, indicating freedom from common contaminating polyphenolic compounds.