Direct PCR of yeast clones picked from agar plate?

[Jeremy Marcus]

In article
<Pine.ULT.3.91.960506124735.464E-100000 at raphael.acpub.duke.edu>, Namjin 
Chung <nc1 at acpub.duke.edu> wrote:

< Dear yeast researchers,
< I would like to know any method of direct PCR with yeast clones which are 
< picked directly from agar plates.  I mean, without preparing DNA after 
< growing cells in liquid culture.  

I haven't checked it out myself yet, but I heard that the answer is found
in Nucleic Acids Research 23:4924-5

Jeremy