soilwater_gr_medium

CultureMech:000225 algae COMPLEX LIQUID
Original name: Soilwater: GR+ Medium

Overview

External ontology
UTEX:soilwater-gr-plus-medium (source link unavailable) — Soilwater: GR+ Medium
Applications
  • Algae cultivation
  • Phytoplankton culture
  • Microalgae research
Notes
UTEX prepares this basic garden-type soilwater by steaming Green House Soil, optional CaCO3, and dH2O.

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_000225["soilwater_gr_medium"]
    ing0_Green_House_Soil["Green House Soil"]
    CultureMech_000225 --> ing0_Green_House_Soil
    ing1_CaCO3["CaCO3"]
    CultureMech_000225 --> ing1_CaCO3
    CHEBI_3311["CHEBI:3311"]
    ing1_CaCO3 -.-> CHEBI_3311
    ing2_dH2O["dH2O"]
    CultureMech_000225 --> ing2_dH2O
    CHEBI_15377["CHEBI:15377"]
    ing2_dH2O -.-> CHEBI_15377

Ingredients (3)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Green House Soil 1 tsp per 200 mL VARIABLE UTEX lists 1 tsp Green House Soil per 200 mL final medium.
2 CaCO3
CO3.Ca 100.086 g/mol
Fisher C 64
0.05 MILLIMOLAR CHEBI:3311
calcium carbonate
 UTEX lists 1 mg CaCO3 per 200 mL final medium; final 0.05 mM.
3 dH2O
H2O 18.015 g/mol
1000 ML_PER_L CHEBI:15377
water
 Converted from 200 mL dH2O per 200 mL final medium.

Preparation

  1. Combine Green House Soil, optional CaCO3, and dH2O.
  2. Cover and steam for two consecutive days for 3 hours on each day.
  3. Refrigerate for at least 24 hours, then bring to room temperature before use.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 utex-import Imported from UTEX Culture Collection Source ID: soilwater-gr-plus-medium, URL: https://utex.org/products/soilwater-gr-plus-medium
2026-03-13T06:18:53.620488Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:000225
2026-03-17T19:45:04.536596+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "Soilwater: GR+ Medium" to "soilwater_gr_medium" for consistent matching
2026-05-16T09:02:57.014615+00:00 migrate_legacy_fields.py MIGRATED_LEGACY_FIELDS curation_history.date->timestamp=1; references.reference_id->reference=2; category->lowercase=1
2026-05-16T09:11:01.967050+00:00 migrate_preparation_steps.py MIGRATED_PREPARATION_STEPS instruction->action+description for 9 step(s)
2026-08-30T00:58:32.157670+00:00 repair_utex_ingredients.py REPAIRED_UTEX_COMPOSITION Restored 3 ingredient name(s) and amount(s) from a re-fetched UTEX capture. The original fetcher read fixed column positions, so the row ordinal was stored as the ingredient name, the component name as the amount, and the Amount column was never read; concentration was then filled in as G_PER_L regardless. Source: https://utex.org/pages/algal-culture-media, captured 2026-08-29T17:46:40.207779.
2026-09-06T00:00:00-07:00 repair_utex_remaining_score50.py RESOLVED_UTEX_SCORE50_ALGAE_GRAPH UTEX prepares this basic garden-type soilwater by steaming Green House Soil, optional CaCO3, and dH2O.
2026-09-06T00:00:00-07:00 repair_utex_remaining_score50.py LINKED_UTEX_SCORE50_ALGAE_CHILDREN Added or refreshed reciprocal parent-child link for algae/soilwater_gr_nh4_medium.yaml.