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Microbes and microbiome

Agricultural and Environmental Microbiome Research

Understanding our world

Our world is full of diverse environments, rich in complexity. And within these niches, microbes are everywhere, in the water, soil, plants and more, forming intricate species relationships and networks. Studying these can be both a stunning and staggering task. This is why we are dedicated to providing the most powerful tools for purifying and analysing challenging environmental and agricultural microbiome samples. Whether you're studying soil microbial diversity, the plant microbiome, microbial ecology, agricultural ecosystems or anything else in the environmental microbiome, our kits are designed to lyse difficult microbes and eliminate inhibitors, giving you sensitive, unbiased and repeatable results. Our workflows are designed to achieve unbiased and repeatable results by lysing difficult microbes, eliminating inhibitors, exhibiting low GC bias and integrating easy-to-use analysis solutions.

Environmental samples can come from many different sources, each with individual challenges in collection, inhibitor content, standardization and repetition. Below are helpful videos answering questions about soil samples, water sample and automated isolations.
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All-in-one metagenomics and sequencing

Metagenomic analysis shows a unique portrait of a microbial community, capturing microbial composition and providing data on environmental health and microbial diversity. We offer the full spectrum of tools that you need to work with samples, from DNA extraction to library preparation to digital metagenomic analysis. Increase reliability and repeatability by getting everything you need in our new all-in-one Microbiome WGS SeqSets powered by our DNeasy and QIAamp kits.

Environmental microbial sample preparation kit selection guide selection guide

Looking for the best kit to fit your samples? Whether it be DNA, RNA, soil, water, air, biofilm, plants & seeds or automated extractions, find the perfect kit for your environmental microbes. Download our environmental microbial sample kit selection guide now.

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Environmental microbiome interactive booklet

Did you know that we provide kits for sample extraction, instruments for downstream applications and digital tools for analysis? That’s our Sample to Insight dedication. Download our environmental microbiome interactive booklet to see all of the kits, instruments, tools and resources we offer to make improvements in environmental microbial research possible.

Environmental microbiome interactive booklet
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