lb_agar

CultureMech:009373 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: LB agar

Overview

External ontology
TOGO:M2829 — LB agar
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
Notes
Source: https://togomedium.org/medium/M2829 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_009373["lb_agar"]
    ing0_Tryptone["Tryptone"]
    CultureMech_009373 --> ing0_Tryptone
    ing1_Yeast_extract["Yeast extract"]
    CultureMech_009373 --> ing1_Yeast_extract
    ing2_Sodium_chloride["Sodium chloride"]
    CultureMech_009373 --> ing2_Sodium_chloride
    CHEBI_26710["CHEBI:26710"]
    ing2_Sodium_chloride -.-> CHEBI_26710

Ingredients (3)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Tryptone
Multiple suppliers (Difco, Sigma, etc.) LB Medium (Luria-Bertani, Miller formulation) Multiple (L3522 Sigma, 244520 BD)
10.0 G_PER_L MICRO:0000182 (source link unavailable)
tryptone
Pancreatic digest of casein providing amino acids, peptides, and nitrogen; Constituent of LB Medium (Luria-Bertani, Miller formulation) commercial product
2 Yeast extract
Multiple suppliers (Difco, Sigma, etc.) LB Medium (Luria-Bertani, Miller formulation) Multiple (L3522 Sigma, 244520 BD)
5.0 G_PER_L FOODON:03315426
yeast extract
Autodigest of Saccharomyces cerevisiae providing vitamins, amino acids, and trace elements; Constituent of LB Medium (Luria-Bertani, Miller formulation) commercial product
3 Sodium chloride
Cl.Na 58.443 g/mol
Multiple suppliers (Difco, Sigma, etc.) LB Medium (Luria-Bertani, Miller formulation) Multiple (L3522 Sigma, 244520 BD)
10.0 G_PER_L CHEBI:26710
sodium chloride
Maintains osmotic equilibrium (Miller formulation); Constituent of LB Medium (Luria-Bertani, Miller formulation) commercial product

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-27T06:35:57.340703Z togo-import Imported from TOGO Medium Source: TOGO, ID: M2829
2026-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 schema-defaulter-v1.0 Applied schema defaults and normalizations Added default concentration for ingredient: LB agar
2026-03-13T06:20:05.933986Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:009373
2026-03-17T19:46:24.863370+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "LB agar" to "lb_agar" for consistent matching
2026-05-16T09:03:38.764965+00:00 migrate_legacy_fields.py MIGRATED_LEGACY_FIELDS curation_history.date->timestamp=1