Plant Science is essential to human life as plants produce all
of the world's food either directly or indirectly. They also
provide raw materials, pharmaceuticals and offer renewable
sources of energy. The genetic manipulation of plants and plant
analysis has been an ongoing science since prehistoric times,
when farmers began carefully selecting and maintaining seed from
their best crops to plant for the next season. Thus, modern
cultured plants are a result of thousands of years of genetic
manipulation. Today, cultured plants are improved through both
biotechnology and selective breeding. Automation of large-scale
plant analysis methods increases boththroughput and reliability.
HAMILTON offers integrated automationsolutions for DNA/RNA
isolation, PCR set-up, sequencing reactionpreparation for
genotyping, and gene expression studies.