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

 

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

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

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

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)

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.

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