Elbing & Brent, 2019. Recipes and Tools for Culture of Escherichia coli. Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 125(1), e83. PMID-30412361; Full-Text Links: wiley, PMC
This peer-reviewed article describes recipes of several microbial media. These are:
Minimal microbial media:
- A medium, 5×
- M9 medium, 5×
- M63 medium, 5×
Rich microbial media:
- H medium
- Lambda broth
- LB medium
- NZC broth
- Superbroth
- TB (terrific broth)
- TNT medium
- Tryptone broth
- TY medium, 2×
- TYGPN medium
Solid Media
Minimal Plates
Rich Plates
Top Agar
Stab Agar
A nice detail about commonly used antibiotics and their use is also given in this article. In addition, it also provides important notes on media preparation, and simple tools & tips to handle microbial culture.
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