Agar

[MulderMan]

What is a good type of agar to use for general culture of microbes? Is PDA any good? anyone got any recipies?

 

thanks

[Sayonara]

Search for agar - there have been a couple of threads on it iirc.

[ed84c]

I have a small amount of Agar if you want any?

[ecoli]

You can get agar at the supermarket, if you don't need high quality stuff.

 

edit: using LB + Agar should be good for general microbial growth http://sosnick.uchicago.edu/LB_agar.html

[PiLoT]

the type of agar really depends on your experiment ie what are you trying to test for (eg trying to isolate a specific strain) and what kind of nutrients/environment the microorganism prefers to live in. but if u just want to have somethin to grow on and cheap yea just go make urself some beef broth or buy coagulated blood (they look like sick tofus)

[Typhi]

Here at the state lab we use sheep blood agar for aerobes. For my section, the Enteric Pathogen section, I use XLD and MAC for pure cultures.

[kixxer]

using LB + Agar should be good for general microbial growth [url']http://sosnick.uchicago.edu/LB_agar.html[/url]

 

we use LB agar only for standard culture, and it works fine