EN ISO 17601:2025

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)

Publication date:   Dec 16, 2025

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60.60   Standard published   Nov 5, 2025

CEN

CEN/TC 444 Environmental characterization of solid matrices

European Norm

13.080.30   Biological properties of soils

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Scope

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.

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EN ISO 17601:2018

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EN ISO 17601:2025
60.60 Standard published
Nov 5, 2025