deepgolwala from gmail.com wrote:
> i am new to the field ,
> i would like to ask while making LB agar(tryptone-10 gms,yeast
> extract-5 gms,NaCl-10 gms-all weight for 1000ml preparations)when
> should i add agar during preparations or after autoclaving.
Agar will survive autoclaving without any problems, and the heat
involved will melt the agar so it can be easily distributed throughout
the medium by swirling the container after it is removed from the
autoclave and cooled for 10-15 minutes. As the medium cools
sufficiently for pouring of plates, most/all of the bubbles introduced
by the mixing will spontaneously pop so there will be few if any left
when the plates are poured. If you wait until the agar is cool enough
to pour to mix, all of those bubbles will be left and you will have to
deal with them by flaming the surfaces of virtually all the plates you
pour.
A question that you might want to consider is how you would prepare
sterile agar for addition to medium that has already been autoclaved.
There really isn't any convenient way to do that, to my knowledge.
Even if there is such a method, the agar solution would have to be
heated sufficiently to melt the agar, which pretty much boils down,
again, to autoclaving.
--
Larry D. Farrell, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Idaho State University
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