difco_nutrient_agar_broth

CultureMech:008602 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: Difco Nutrient Agar/Broth

Overview

External ontology
TOGO:M2015 — Difco Nutrient Agar/Broth
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
pH
7.0
Notes
TOGO M2015 imports NBRC Medium 1304, which defines Difco Nutrient Agar/Broth per liter as 8.0 g Nutrient Broth (Difco), 1.0 L Distilled water, 15.0 g Agar if needed, and pH 7.0. BD catalog 234000 identifies Nutrient Broth as a BD Difco dehydrated culture medium.

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_008602["difco_nutrient_agar_broth"]
    ing0_Nutrient_Broth__Difco_["Nutrient Broth (Difco)"]
    CultureMech_008602 --> ing0_Nutrient_Broth__Difco_
    ing1_Distilled_water["Distilled water"]
    CultureMech_008602 --> ing1_Distilled_water
    CHEBI_15377["CHEBI:15377"]
    ing1_Distilled_water -.-> CHEBI_15377
    ing2_Agar__if_needed_["Agar (if needed)"]
    CultureMech_008602 --> ing2_Agar__if_needed_
    CHEBI_2509["CHEBI:2509"]
    ing2_Agar__if_needed_ -.-> CHEBI_2509

Ingredients (3)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Nutrient Broth (Difco) 8.0 G_PER_L NBRC Medium 1304 lists 8.0 g/L Nutrient Broth (Difco). This commercial BD-Difco base is retained as a source-disclosed opaque component.
2 Distilled water
H2O 18.015 g/mol
1.0 L CHEBI:15377
water
NBRC Medium 1304 lists 1.0 L distilled water.
3 Agar (if needed) 15.0 G_PER_L CHEBI:2509
agar
NBRC Medium 1304 lists 15.0 g/L agar for solid medium when needed.

Preparation

  1. Mix 8.0 g/L Nutrient Broth (Difco) with 1.0 L distilled water; add 15.0 g/L agar when preparing solid medium.
  2. Adjust pH to 7.0.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-27T06:35:58.879318Z togo-import Imported from TOGO Medium Source: NBRC, ID: M2015
2026-01-28T19:48:26.989803Z chebi-enrichment Added CHEBI ontology terms to ingredients Enriched using MicrobeMediaParam and MediaDive chemical mappings
2026-03-13T06:19:58.563506Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:008602
2026-03-17T06:30:22.000000Z mediaingredientmech-enrichment-v1.0 Added MediaIngredientMech links Linked ingredients to MediaIngredientMech identifiers
2026-03-17T19:46:17.181016+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "Difco Nutrient Agar/Broth" to "difco_nutrient_agar_broth" for consistent matching
2026-06-05T07:40:58.707067+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.
2026-09-12T00:00:00-07:00 repair_togo_m2015_difco_nutrient_score15.py RESOLVED_TOGO_M2015_DIFCO_NUTRIENT_SCORE15 TOGO M2015 imports NBRC Medium 1304, which defines Difco Nutrient Agar/Broth per liter as 8.0 g Nutrient Broth (Difco), 1.0 L Distilled water, 15.0 g Agar if needed, and pH 7.0. BD catalog 234000 identifies Nutrient Broth as a BD Difco dehydrated culture medium. Corrected the imported water unit artifact, added the NBRC pH, grounded water and optional agar, and kept Nutrient Broth (Difco) intentionally unmapped as a source-disclosed commercial base.