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This document specifies the crucial steps of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) method to measure the abundance of selected microbial gene sequences from soil DNA extract. The number of microbial gene sequences quantified by qPCR provides an estimation of the abundance of selected microbial groups in soil.
WITHDRAWN
ISO 17601:2016
PUBLISHED
ISO 17601:2025
60.60
Standard published
Oct 24, 2025
Soil quality - Estimation of abundance of selected microbial gene sequences by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) from DNA directly extracted from soil (ISO 17601:2025)
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