Engineered DNA Polymerase Improves PCR Results for Plastid DNA

Applications in Plant Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Schori, Melanie ^a   Appel, Maryke ^b   Kitko, Alexarae ^a,c   Showalter, Allan M ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kapa Biosystems   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

directed evolution; engineered KAPA3G DNA Polymerase; matK; PCR inhibition; rbcL

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896484146     PISSN: 21680450     EISSN: 15372197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/apps.1200519     Document Type: Article

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