RNA quality assessment: a view from plant qPCR studies
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Author
Die, Jose V.
Román, Belén
Publisher
Oxford University PressDate
2012Subject
MIQEqPCR
3’:5’ratio
RNA integrity
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Reverse transcription-quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) is probably the most common molecular technique used in transcriptome analyses today. The simplicity of the technology and associated protocols that generate results without the need to understand the underlying principles has made RT-qPCR the method of choice for RNA quantification. Rather than the ‘gold standard technology’ often used to describe it, the performance of RT-qPCR suffers from considerable pitfalls during general workflow. The inconsistency of conventional methods for the evaluation of RNA quality and its influence on qPCR performance as well as stability of reference genes is summarized and discussed here.