diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 727b7685..4f1bc639 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Tables = "0.2, 1.0"
 julia = "1.6"
 
 [extras]
+DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
 DecisionTree = "7806a523-6efd-50cb-b5f6-3fa6f1930dbb"
 Distances = "b4f34e82-e78d-54a5-968a-f98e89d6e8f7"
 Logging = "56ddb016-857b-54e1-b83d-db4d58db5568"
@@ -59,4 +60,4 @@ Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 TypedTables = "9d95f2ec-7b3d-5a63-8d20-e2491e220bb9"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["DecisionTree", "Distances", "Logging", "MultivariateStats", "NearestNeighbors", "StableRNGs", "Test", "TypedTables"]
+test = ["DataFrames", "DecisionTree", "Distances", "Logging", "MultivariateStats", "NearestNeighbors", "StableRNGs", "Test", "TypedTables"]
diff --git a/src/interface/data_utils.jl b/src/interface/data_utils.jl
index 715410e8..0362d250 100644
--- a/src/interface/data_utils.jl
+++ b/src/interface/data_utils.jl
@@ -97,14 +97,18 @@ function MMI.selectrows(::FI, ::Val{:table}, X, r)
 end
 
 function MMI.selectcols(::FI, ::Val{:table}, X, c::Union{Symbol, Integer})
-    cols = Tables.columntable(X) # named tuple of vectors
-    return cols[c]
+    cols = Tables.columns(X)
+    return Tables.getcolumn(cols, c)
 end
 
-function MMI.selectcols(::FI, ::Val{:table}, X, c::AbstractArray)
-    cols = Tables.columntable(X) # named tuple of vectors
-    newcols = project(cols, c)
-    return Tables.materializer(X)(newcols)
+function MMI.selectcols(::FI, ::Val{:table}, X, c::Union{Colon, AbstractArray})
+    if isdataframe(X)
+        return X[!, c]
+    else
+        cols = Tables.columntable(X) # named tuple of vectors
+        newcols = project(cols, c)
+        return Tables.materializer(X)(newcols)
+    end
 end
 
 # -------------------------------
@@ -124,7 +128,7 @@ function project(t::NamedTuple, indices::AbstractArray{<:Integer})
 end
 
 # utils for selectrows
-typename(X) = split(string(supertype(typeof(X)).name), '.')[end]
+typename(X) = split(string(supertype(typeof(X))), '.')[end]
 isdataframe(X) = typename(X) == "AbstractDataFrame"
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/test/interface/data_utils.jl b/test/interface/data_utils.jl
index d75cfb47..84d35a5e 100644
--- a/test/interface/data_utils.jl
+++ b/test/interface/data_utils.jl
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import DataFrames
+
 rng = StableRNGs.StableRNG(123)
 
 @testset "categorical" begin
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ end
     b = categorical(["a", "b", "c"])
     c = categorical(["a", "b", "c"]; ordered=true)
     X = (x1=x, x2=z, x3=b, x4=c)
-    @test MLJModelInterface.scitype(x) == ST.scitype(x)    
+    @test MLJModelInterface.scitype(x) == ST.scitype(x)
     @test MLJModelInterface.scitype(y) == ST.scitype(y)
     @test MLJModelInterface.scitype(z) == ST.scitype(z)
     @test MLJModelInterface.scitype(a) == ST.scitype(a)
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ end
     b = categorical(["a", "b", "c"])
     c = categorical(["a", "b", "c"]; ordered=true)
     X = (x1=x, x2=z, x3=b, x4=c)
-    @test_throws ArgumentError MLJModelInterface.schema(x)    
+    @test_throws ArgumentError MLJModelInterface.schema(x)
     @test MLJModelInterface.schema(X) == ST.schema(X)
 end
 
@@ -197,4 +199,13 @@ end
     @test selectcols(tt, :w) == v
 end
 
+# https://github.com/JuliaAI/MLJBase.jl/issues/784
+@testset "typename and dataframes" begin
+    df = DataFrames.DataFrame(x=[1,2,3], y=[2,3,4], z=[4,5,6])
+    @test MLJBase.typename(df) == "AbstractDataFrame"
+    @test MLJBase.isdataframe(df)
+    @test selectrows(df, 2:3) == df[2:3, :]
+    @test selectcols(df, [:x, :z]) == df[!, [:x, :z]]
+end
+
 true