Media Recipes

BACTERIA

R2A - for contamination testing
LB - Luria Broth

For Agrobacterium
S-AB - for A. rhizogenes maintenance

For E. coli
M9 - minimal media
CDFB - Carlson Fed-batch Medium

For Rhodobacter
YCC - for routine maintenance
MR26+ - for photo-heterotrophic growth
MR26- - Argonne Lab's defined media for photo-heterotrophic growth
[comparison of Rhodobacter media found throughout literature]

For C. phytofermentans
GS-2C
GS2-UmR - no urea, resazurin, low MOPS
GS2-Um - no urea, low MOPS
MI - 
PC - C, N deficient media

Bradyrhizobium
BDM - Bradyrhizobium Defined Medium
Pradella - for NIF Bradyrhizobium

Miscellaneous
AIC - for Azotobacter Initial Culture Medium
Burk's - for Azotobacter vinelandii diazotrophic growth



ALGAE

Cyanobacteria
A+ - for Synechoccus PCC 7002
Cyanidium - for thermophile Galdieria sulphuraria
Bg-11o-HEPES - for Syneochosistisis PCC 6803

For Chlamydomonas reinhardii:
HS - for (slow) phototrophic growth
TAP1 - for rapid heterotrophic growth (may have some precipitation)
TAP2 - TAP1 without precipitate

For Chlorella & Botryococcus:
BBM
BG-11
F/2
Modified Chu 13
WFAM
WFAM6
WFAMC

FUNGI
Saboroud - yeast plating
YPC - growing yeast

For 'white rot' mushrooms
WRF - for 'white rot'  fungi, P. chrysoporium and C. subvermispora
YMPG - slant/liquid for P. chrysoporium
PCMM - P-chry minimal media

For Neurospora crassa
BMM - Bird's Minimal Media
VM - Vogel Media (routine maintenance)



PLANT

MS - standard baseline for plant medium
MS-NT - for production of pathogenic E. coli intimin in NT1 tobacco

For Roots:
B5 - for root cultures
B5+2,4D - for suspension cultures
CIM - H. muticus callus induction media
M-CIM - modified CIM for N. glutinosa
M-SIM - transgenic shoot induction media
MXB - MS-B5 Hybrid
PBA - for 'hairless' root culture
RIM - root induction medium
SIM - Shoot induction media


For Theobroma cacao:
ED - for embryo development
PCG - for Primary Callus Growth 
SCG - for Secondary Callus Growth 

For Manihot esculenta (cassava):
CASV-GD - maintain embryogenic calli
CASV-MSN - somatic embryo emerging
CASV-CEM- shoot elongation
CASV-CBM- basic shoot culture

For Dioscorea cayenensis (yam):
YAM - multiplication media

For Dioscorea rotundata (yam):
YCPM - callus proliferation media
YBM - Yam Basic Media

For Musa spp. (AAB):
BANA - for solid/liquid maintenance

Miscellaneous:
AG - Arabidopsis media
Pot-Mod - Modified Potato medium
REP-potato - Replicase transgenic potato medium
WSIM - for watermelon