merds_my75s

CultureMech:000365 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: MErds/MY75S

Overview

External ontology
mediadive.medium:C54 (source link unavailable) — MErds/MY75S
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
Notes
Source: CCAP | Link: https://www.ccap.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/MR_MErds_MY75S.pdf

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_000365["merds_my75s"]
    ing0_NaNO3["NaNO3"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing0_NaNO3
    CHEBI_63005["CHEBI:63005"]
    ing0_NaNO3 -.-> CHEBI_63005
    ing1_Na2HPO4["Na2HPO4"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing1_Na2HPO4
    CHEBI_34683["CHEBI:34683"]
    ing1_Na2HPO4 -.-> CHEBI_34683
    ing2_Sea_water["Sea water"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing2_Sea_water
    ing3_K2HPO4["K2HPO4"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing3_K2HPO4
    CHEBI_131527["CHEBI:131527"]
    ing3_K2HPO4 -.-> CHEBI_131527
    ing4_MgSO4_x_7_H2O["MgSO4 x 7 H2O"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing4_MgSO4_x_7_H2O
    CHEBI_31795["CHEBI:31795"]
    ing4_MgSO4_x_7_H2O -.-> CHEBI_31795
    ing5_KNO3["KNO3"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing5_KNO3
    CHEBI_63043["CHEBI:63043"]
    ing5_KNO3 -.-> CHEBI_63043
    ing6_Soil["Soil"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing6_Soil
    ing7_Natural_sea_water["Natural sea water"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing7_Natural_sea_water
    ing8_Malt_extract["Malt extract"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing8_Malt_extract
    ing9_Yeast_extract["Yeast extract"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing9_Yeast_extract
    ing10_Agar["Agar"]
    CultureMech_000365 --> ing10_Agar
    CHEBI_2509["CHEBI:2509"]
    ing10_Agar -.-> CHEBI_2509

Ingredients (11)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 NaNO3
NO3.Na 84.994 g/mol
1 G_PER_L CHEBI:63005
sodium nitrate
2 Na2HPO4
HO4P.2Na 141.958 g/mol
1 G_PER_L CHEBI:34683
disodium hydrogenphosphate
3 Sea water 900 G_PER_L
4 K2HPO4
HO4P.2K 174.174 g/mol
20 G_PER_L CHEBI:131527
dipotassium hydrogen phosphate
5 MgSO4 x 7 H2O
7H2O.Mg.O4S 246.473 g/mol
20 G_PER_L CHEBI:31795
magnesium sulfate heptahydrate
6 KNO3
K.NO3 101.102 g/mol
20 G_PER_L CHEBI:63043
potassium nitrate
7 Soil variable VARIABLE
8 Natural sea water 750 G_PER_L
9 Malt extract 0.1 G_PER_L
10 Yeast extract 0.1 G_PER_L
11 Agar 15 G_PER_L CHEBI:2509
agar

Preparation

  1. Biphasic. See separate recipes.
  2. Mix the above constituents and autoclave at 15 psi for 15 minutes. It may be necessary to filter final medium to avoid problems with precipitate.
  3. Make up to 1 litre with deionized water and autoclave at 15 psi for 15 minutes.
  4. At the CCAP, SE1 is used for marine algae, SE2 for freshwater and terrestrial protozoa
  5. Site selection for a good soil is very important and for most purposes a soil from undisturbed deciduous woodland is best. Sites to avoid are those showing obvious signs of man's activity and particular care should be taken to avoid areas where fertilizers, crop sprays or other toxic chemicals may have been used.
  6. A rich loam with good crumb structure should be sought. Stones, roots and larger invertebrates should be removed during an initial sieving through a 1 cm mesh. The sieved soil should be spread to air dry and handpicked for smaller invertebrates and roots. It should be turned periodically and picked over again. When dry sieve through a finer mesh (2-4 mm) and store in an airtight container away from light and heat.
  7. Soil is prepared as above. Air­-dried soil and twice its volume of supernatant distilled water are autoclaved together at 15 psi for 2 hours and left to cool. The supernatant is then decanted and filtered through Whatman No 1 filter paper, then distributed to containers in volumes suitable for making up batches of media. The aliquots and their containers are autoclaved for an appropriate length of time (e.g. 1 litre or less for 15 minutes) and are then kept in a cool place (e.g. a refrigerator) until required.
  8. Site selection for a good soil is very important and for most purposes a soil from undisturbed deciduous woodland is best. Sites to avoid are those showing obvious signs of man's activity and particular care should be taken to avoid areas where fertilizers, crop sprays or other toxic chemicals may have been used.
  9. A rich loam with good crumb structure should be sought. Stones, roots and larger invertebrates should be removed during an initial sieving through a 1 cm mesh. The sieved soil should be spread to air dry and handpicked for smaller invertebrates and roots. It should be turned periodically and picked over again. When dry sieve through a finer mesh (2-4 mm) and store in an airtight container away from light and heat.
  10. Soil is prepared as above. Air-dried soil and twice its volume of supernatant distilled water are autoclaved together at 15 psi for 2 hours and left to cool. The supernatant is then decanted and then distributed to containers in volumes suitable for making up batches of media. The aliquots and their containers are autoclaved for an appropriate length of time (e.g. 1 litre or less for 15 minutes) and are then kept in a cool place (e.g. a refrigerator) until required.
  11. Thoroughly disperse the agar in cold 75% seawater. Bring to the boil, stirring continuously. During heating add the other constituents. Transfer the molten agar to suitable vessels and sterilise at 15 psi for 15 minutes. If available a bench top agar maker is preferable to making this medium. The constant stirring during sterilisation minimises flocculation.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

Merged from 1 source record.

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-26T17:53:19.659427Z mediadive-import Imported from MediaDive Source: CCAP, ID: C54
2026-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 schema-defaulter-v1.0 Applied schema defaults and normalizations Added default concentration for ingredient: Soil; Added default concentration for ingredient: Soil
2026-03-13T03:09:20.801323Z data-quality-cleanup-v1.0 Data quality fixes Merged 1 duplicate ingredient(s)
2026-03-13T06:18:54.781276Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:000365
2026-03-17T06:30:28.000000Z mediaingredientmech-enrichment-v1.0 Added MediaIngredientMech links Linked ingredients to MediaIngredientMech identifiers
2026-03-17T19:45:05.786581+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "MErds/MY75S" to "merds_my75s" for consistent matching
2026-05-16T09:04:21.210421+00:00 migrate_legacy_fields.py MIGRATED_LEGACY_FIELDS curation_history.date->timestamp=1
2026-06-05T07:41:30.479769+00:00 mim-legacy-to-chebi-migration-v1.0 Refreshed legacy MediaIngredientMech links to CHEBI keying Replaced 4 legacy mediaingredientmech_term link(s) with mediaingredientmech_chebi_term (id-safe: ingredient's own CHEBI + label). MIM deprecated the MediaIngredientMech:NNNNNN id scheme.
2026-06-10T07:37:35.458024+00:00 primary-term-regrounding-v1.0 Re-grounded wrong primary term id (OAK-verified) 1 primary term(s); ingredient name resolved by OAK sqlite:obo:chebi.
2026-06-10T07:47:06.577358+00:00 primary-term-label-canonicalization-v1.0 Canonicalized primary term label to OBO canonical (OAK) 2 primary term(s); ingredient name resolved by OAK sqlite:obo:chebi.
2026-08-06T03:05:44.473624+00:00 merge_recipes.py MERGED_RECIPES merged 1 source recipe(s) on fingerprint 2526ab6f6bd72c532d2bc0d6644c1991a39db1146788622e3de429b2f16f2561