lb_agar_medium

CultureMech:009664 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: LB agar medium

Overview

External ontology
TOGO:M3224 — LB agar medium
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
Synonyms
  • {'name': '1_3_lb_agar', 'source': 'MediaDive', 'source_id': 'mediadive.medium:J842', 'original_category': 'bacterial'}
  • {'name': '2yt_medium', 'source': 'TOGO', 'source_id': 'TOGO:M2921', 'original_category': 'bacterial'}
  • {'name': 'half_concentrated_lb_luria_bertani_medium', 'source': 'MediaDive', 'source_id': 'mediadive.medium:1623', 'original_category': 'bacterial'}
  • {'name': 'lb_luria_bertani_agar', 'source': 'MediaDive', 'source_id': 'mediadive.medium:J443', 'original_category': 'bacterial'}
  • {'name': 'lb_luria_bertani_agar_with_5_nacl', 'source': 'MediaDive', 'source_id': 'mediadive.medium:J1240', 'original_category': 'bacterial'}
  • {'name': 'lb_luria_bertani_agar_with_5_nacl_ph_9_0', 'source': 'MediaDive', 'source_id': 'mediadive.medium:J1185', 'original_category': 'bacterial'}
  • {'name': 'lb_luria_bertani_medium', 'source': 'MediaDive', 'source_id': 'mediadive.medium:381', 'original_category': 'bacterial'}
Notes
Source: https://togomedium.org/medium/M3224 Commercial Product: LB Medium (Luria-Bertani, Miller formulation) Supplier: Multiple suppliers (Difco, Sigma, etc.) Catalog: Multiple (L3522 Sigma, 244520 BD) Source: https://www.laboratorynotes.com/preparation-of-luria-bertani-lb-miller-broth/ Accessed: 2026-03-28 Constituent composition researched from product specification.

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_009664["lb_agar_medium"]
    ing0_Tryptone["Tryptone"]
    CultureMech_009664 --> ing0_Tryptone
    ing1_Yeast_extract["Yeast extract"]
    CultureMech_009664 --> ing1_Yeast_extract
    ing2_NaCl["NaCl"]
    CultureMech_009664 --> ing2_NaCl
    CHEBI_26710["CHEBI:26710"]
    ing2_NaCl -.-> CHEBI_26710
    ing3_Agar["Agar"]
    CultureMech_009664 --> ing3_Agar
    CHEBI_2509["CHEBI:2509"]
    ing3_Agar -.-> CHEBI_2509

Ingredients (4)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Tryptone 3.3 G_PER_L
2 Yeast extract 1.7 G_PER_L
3 NaCl
Cl.Na 58.443 g/mol
5 G_PER_L CHEBI:26710
sodium chloride
4 Agar 15 G_PER_L CHEBI:2509
agar

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

Merged from 8 source records.

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-27T06:35:57.616146Z togo-import Imported from TOGO Medium Source: TOGO, ID: M3224
2026-01-28T19:48:18.775831Z chebi-enrichment Added CHEBI ontology terms to ingredients Enriched using MicrobeMediaParam and MediaDive chemical mappings
2026-03-13T06:20:07.974702Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:009664
2026-03-17T06:30:05.000000Z mediaingredientmech-enrichment-v1.0 Added MediaIngredientMech links Linked ingredients to MediaIngredientMech identifiers
2026-03-17T19:46:26.980146+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "LB agar medium" to "lb_agar_medium" for consistent matching
2026-06-05T07:41:10.805684+00:00 mim-legacy-to-chebi-migration-v1.0 Refreshed legacy MediaIngredientMech links to CHEBI keying Replaced 1 legacy mediaingredientmech_term link(s) with mediaingredientmech_chebi_term (id-safe: ingredient's own CHEBI + label). MIM deprecated the MediaIngredientMech:NNNNNN id scheme.
2026-08-06T03:04:33.835883+00:00 recipe-merger Merged 8 duplicate recipes into canonical record Sources: 1_3_lb_agar, 2yt_medium, half_concentrated_lb_luria_bertani_medium, lb_agar_medium, lb_luria_bertani_agar, lb_luria_bertani_agar_with_5_nacl, lb_luria_bertani_agar_with_5_nacl_ph_9_0, lb_luria_bertani_medium
2026-08-06T03:04:33.835930+00:00 merge_recipes.py MERGED_RECIPES merged 8 source recipe(s) on fingerprint 3cb7028f083ead8f828a09615b3852eeb6d919453659873c5dde37bff08442b5