alkali_reinforced_clostridial_agar

CultureMech:009842 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: Alkali-Reinforced Clostridial Agar

Overview

External ontology
TOGO:M455 — Alkali-Reinforced Clostridial Agar
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
pH
10.0
Notes
JCM Medium 455 Alkali-Reinforced Clostridial Agar lists 51 g Reinforced clostridial agar (Sigma) in 900 ml distilled water per liter. After autoclaving at 121 C for 15 min, 100 ml of sterile 10% Na2CO3 solution is added aseptically and the final pH is checked to be about 10.0.

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_009842["alkali_reinforced_clostridial_agar"]
    ing0_Reinforced_clostridial_agar__Sigma_["Reinforced clostridial agar (Sigma)"]
    CultureMech_009842 --> ing0_Reinforced_clostridial_agar__Sigma_
    ing1_Distilled_water["Distilled water"]
    CultureMech_009842 --> ing1_Distilled_water
    CHEBI_15377["CHEBI:15377"]
    ing1_Distilled_water -.-> CHEBI_15377

Ingredients (2)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Reinforced clostridial agar (Sigma) 51.0 G_PER_L TOGO M455 / JCM Medium 455 lists 51.0 g/L Reinforced clostridial agar (Sigma); this dehydrated commercial mixture is retained as an opaque complex component.
2 Distilled water
H2O 18.015 g/mol
900.0 ML_PER_L CHEBI:15377
water
TOGO M455 / JCM Medium 455 lists 900.0 ml/L Distilled water.

Preparation

  1. Autoclave the reinforced clostridial agar base at 121 C for 15 min.
  2. Aseptically add 100 ml/L sterile 10% Na2CO3 solution after autoclaving.
  3. Check final pH to be about 10.0.

Solutions

10% Na2CO3 solution

Dose: 100.0 ML_PER_L

Stock composition
IngredientConcentrationNotes
Na2CO3 10.0 PERCENT_W_V JCM Medium 455 specifies a 10% Na2CO3 solution.
TOGO M455 / JCM Medium 455 adds 100.0 ml/L sterile 10% Na2CO3 solution.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-27T06:35:55.093180Z togo-import Imported from TOGO Medium Source: JCM, ID: M455
2026-01-28T19:48:28.615509Z chebi-enrichment Added CHEBI ontology terms to ingredients Enriched using MicrobeMediaParam and MediaDive chemical mappings
2026-03-09T08:04:47.388742+00:00 solution-migrator-v1.0 Migrated solutions from ingredients to solutions array Moved 1 solution(s) from ingredients
2026-03-13T06:20:09.319836Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:009842
2026-03-14T00:00:00+00:00 schema-defaulter-v1.0 Applied schema defaults and normalizations Added default solution name
2026-03-17T06:30:26.000000Z mediaingredientmech-enrichment-v1.0 Added MediaIngredientMech links Linked ingredients to MediaIngredientMech identifiers
2026-03-17T19:46:28.292576+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "Alkali-Reinforced Clostridial Agar" to "alkali_reinforced_clostridial_agar" for consistent matching
2026-05-16T09:03:18.153281+00:00 migrate_legacy_fields.py MIGRATED_LEGACY_FIELDS curation_history.date->timestamp=1
2026-06-05T07:40:41.533560+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.
2026-09-11T00:00:00-07:00 repair_togo_m455_score15.py RESOLVED_TOGO_M455_SCORE15 JCM Medium 455 Alkali-Reinforced Clostridial Agar lists 51 g Reinforced clostridial agar (Sigma) in 900 ml distilled water per liter. After autoclaving at 121 C for 15 min, 100 ml of sterile 10% Na2CO3 solution is added aseptically and the final pH is checked to be about 10.0.