The invention discloses a method for extracting microbial
total RNA in forest soil and
litter, which comprises the following steps: 1, carrying out freeze-
drying on a forest soil or
litter sample,
grinding, and uniformly mixing; 2, adding pyrocarbonic acid
diethyl ester treating water into the powdered sample, and standing over night at -70 DEG C; 3, adding glass beads, hexadecyl trimethyl
ammonium bromide buffer, lauryl
sodium sulfate, diatomite and
phenol /
chloroform /
isoamyl alcohol, and uniformly mixing; 4, severely shaking the mixed liquid, and centrifuging to obtain the supernate; 5, adding guanidinium
isothiocyanate into the supernate, and centrifuging to obtain the supernate; 6, adding
chloroform /
isoamyl alcohol into the supernate, and centrifuging to obtain the supernate; 7, addingpolyethylene glycol 6000 into the supernate, standing, centrifuging, and removing the supernate; 8, washing, dissolving, and carrying out
DNA enzyme digestion to obtain an
RNA solution; and 9, detecting the integrality of the
RNA through
agarose gel electrophoresis, and using a
nucleic acid protein determinator to detect the concentration and purity of the
RNA. The RNA extracted by using the method has high yield, good integrality and better purity.