Ice-Cap: A Method for Growing Arabidopsis and Tomato Plants in 96-well Plates for High-Throughput GenotypingShih-Heng Su 1, Katie A. Clark 2, Nicole M. Gibbs 1, Susan M. Bush 1, Patrick J. Krysan 1
1Horticulture Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2Department of Zoology, Oregon State University
The Ice-Cap method allows one to grow plants in 96-well plates and non-destructively harvest root tissue from each seedling. DNA extracted from this root tissue can be used for genotyping reactions. We have found that Ice-Cap works well for Arabidopsis thaliana, tomato, and rice seedlings.