Considering the high levels of starch and lipid present in Jerusalem artichoke seeds, we modified the methods of Li and Trick [3] and Ma and Yang [6] by adjusting the amounts of reagents and adding extra important steps. Specifically, the original Li and Trick [3] method was modified as MLT method by adding a step containing TRIzol® reagent which contains phenol and guanidine isothiocyanate, a strong denaturant. This solution helps to remove all traces of interfering protein and other metabolites [17]. The addition of 750 μL instead of 400 μL of extraction buffer and using 500 μL of TRIzol® reagent instead of 250 μL of extraction buffer II in Li and Trick [3] protocol helped to get 16 and 15 μg RNA/30 mg fresh weight from seeds of Jerusalem artichoke cv. JA37 and HEL53 within approximately one and a half hours (Table 1; Figure 1) which is higher than the amount of RNA extracted from more seed weight (60 mg) using the original protocol of Li and Trick [3] (Table 1). These efforts generated successful extractions of total RNA from Jerusalem artichoke dry seeds, as illustrated in Table 1 and Figure 1. The yields of total RNA by MLT were significantly higher than those obtained using the other unmodified methods.