r2a_agar_with_artificial_seawater

CultureMech:010285 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: R2A Agar With Artificial Seawater

Overview

External ontology
TOGO:M868 — R2A Agar With Artificial Seawater
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
Notes
TOGO M868 mirrors JCM Medium 832: 18.2 g R2A agar (BD-Difco) with 1.0 L artificial seawater from JCM Medium 736.

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_010285["r2a_agar_with_artificial_seawater"]
    ing0_R2A_agar__BD_Difco_["R2A agar (BD-Difco)"]
    CultureMech_010285 --> ing0_R2A_agar__BD_Difco_

Ingredients (1)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 R2A agar (BD-Difco) 18.2 G_PER_L JCM Medium 832 lists 18.2 g R2A agar (BD-Difco) per liter of artificial seawater.

Preparation

  1. Prepare artificial seawater from the JCM Medium 736 salts.
  2. Dissolve 18.2 g R2A agar (BD-Difco) in 1.0 L artificial seawater.
  3. Autoclave at 121 C for 15 min.

Solutions

Artificial seawater

Dose: 1000 ML_PER_L

Stock composition
IngredientConcentrationNotes
NaCl 23.5 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
MgCl2 x 6 H2O 4.9 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
Na2SO4 3.9 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
CaCl2 x 2 H2O 1.1 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
KCl 0.66 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
NaHCO3 0.19 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
KBr 0.096 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
H3BO3 0.026 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
SrCl2 x 6 H2O 0.024 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
NaF 0.003 G_PER_L JCM Medium 736 prints this component in the Artificial seawater subrecipe used by JCM Medium 832.
Distilled water 1000 ML_PER_L JCM Medium 736 lists 1.0 L distilled water for the Artificial seawater subrecipe.
JCM Medium 832 adds 1.0 L artificial seawater per liter of R2A Agar With Artificial Seawater; the salt composition is printed in JCM Medium 736.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-27T06:35:55.867440Z togo-import Imported from TOGO Medium Source: JCM, ID: M868
2026-03-09T08:04:18.455443+00:00 solution-migrator-v1.0 Migrated solutions from ingredients to solutions array Moved 1 solution(s) from ingredients
2026-03-13T06:20:12.699995Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:010285
2026-03-14T00:00:00+00:00 schema-defaulter-v1.0 Applied schema defaults and normalizations Added default solution name
2026-03-17T19:46:31.646236+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "R2A Agar With Artificial Seawater" to "r2a_agar_with_artificial_seawater" for consistent matching
2026-05-16T09:03:21.569648+00:00 migrate_legacy_fields.py MIGRATED_LEGACY_FIELDS curation_history.date->timestamp=1
2026-09-06T00:00:00-07:00 repair_r2a_score40.py RESOLVED_R2A_SCORE40_GRAPH TOGO M868 mirrors JCM Medium 832: 18.2 g R2A agar (BD-Difco) with 1.0 L artificial seawater from JCM Medium 736.