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  2. Potato dextrose agar - Wikipedia

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    Aspergillus sp. growing in potato dextrose agar Potato dextrose agar (BAM Media M127) and potato dextrose broth are common microbiological growth media made from potato infusion and dextrose. Potato dextrose agar (abbreviated "PDA") is the most widely used medium for growing fungi and bacteria. PDA has the capability to culture various bacteria and fungi found in the soil. This agar can be ...

  3. Growth medium - Wikipedia

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    An agar plate – an example of a bacterial growth medium*: Specifically, it is a streak plate; the orange lines and dots are formed by bacterial colonies.. A growth medium or culture medium is a solid, liquid, or semi-solid designed to support the growth of a population of microorganisms or cells via the process of cell proliferation [1] or small plants like the moss Physcomitrella patens. [2]

  4. Microbiological culture - Wikipedia

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    Agar plates Organisms are placed or streaked onto petri dishes Provides a solid surface for stationary growth, compact and stackable Agar based dipsticks Essentially miniature agar plates in the form of dipsticks Diagnostic purposes, can be used anywhere, cost effective, easy to use Selective and differential media

  5. Agar - Wikipedia

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    Green tea-flavored yōkan, a popular Japanese red bean jelly made from agar A blood agar plate used to culture bacteria and diagnose infection. Agar (/ ˈ eɪ ɡ ɑːr / or / ˈ ɑː ɡ ər /), or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance consisting of polysaccharides obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae, primarily from "ogonori" and "tengusa".

  6. Agar plate - Wikipedia

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    Contamination on an agar plate. An agar plate is a Petri dish that contains a growth medium solidified with agar, used to culture microorganisms. Sometimes selective compounds are added to influence growth, such as antibiotics. [1] 96 pinner used to perform spot assays with yeast, fungal or bacterial cells

  7. Antibiotic sensitivity testing - Wikipedia

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    In agar and broth dilution methods, bacteria are placed in multiple small tubes with different concentrations of antibiotics. [14] Whether a bacterium is sensitive or not is determined by visual inspection or automatic optical methods, after a period of incubation. [5] Broth dilution is considered the gold standard for phenotypic testing. [14]

  8. Murashige and Skoog medium - Wikipedia

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    Mammillaria sp. on MS media in agar. Murashige and Skoog medium (or MSO or MS0 (MS-zero)) is the most popular plant growth medium used in the laboratories worldwide for cultivation of plant cell culture on agar. MS0 was invented by plant scientists Toshio Murashige and Folke K. Skoog in 1962 during Murashige's search for a new plant growth ...

  9. Rhodotorula - Wikipedia

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    Rhodotorula mucilaginosa cells, Methylene blue stain, magnification 400x. Rhodotorula is a genus of fungi in the class Microbotryomycetes.Most species are known in their yeast states which produce orange to red colonies when grown on Sabouraud's dextrose agar (SDA).