A new, simple, highly scalable, and efficient protocol for genomic DNA extraction from diverse plant taxa.

Application of the protocol to various plant species yielded DNA of high quality in less than two hours and can be adjusted to extract DNA at large (maxi-preps) or small (96-well minipreps) scales. We anticipate that our method will be of wide utility for rapidly isolating large quantities of quality genomic DNA from diverse plant species and will have broad applications in phylogenetic studies utilizing PCR and short-read DNA sequencing.