Castenholz basal salt solution

CultureMech:013022 bacterial

Overview

Notes
MediaDive solution 3963 is the Castenholz basal salt solution from JCM Medium 273 used by JCM Medium 276 at 100.0 ml/L.

Stock composition (8)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Distilled water
H2O 18.015 g/mol
1000.0 ML_PER_L CHEBI:15377
water
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 1000.0 ml/L Distilled water.
2 MgSO4 x 7 H2O
7H2O.Mg.O4S 246.473 g/mol
1.0 G_PER_L CHEBI:31795
magnesium sulfate heptahydrate
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 1.0 g/L MgSO4 x 7 H2O.
3 NaCl
Cl.Na 58.443 g/mol
0.08 G_PER_L CHEBI:26710
sodium chloride
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 0.08 g/L NaCl.
4 NaNO3
NO3.Na 84.994 g/mol
6.89 G_PER_L CHEBI:63005
sodium nitrate
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 6.89 g/L NaNO3.
5 Nitrilotriacetic acid
C6H9NO6 191.139 g/mol
1.0 G_PER_L CHEBI:44557
nitrilotriacetic acid
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 1.0 g/L Nitrilotriacetic acid.
6 KNO3
K.NO3 101.102 g/mol
1.03 G_PER_L CHEBI:63043
potassium nitrate
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 1.03 g/L KNO3.
7 Na2HPO4
HO4P.2Na 141.958 g/mol
1.11 G_PER_L CHEBI:34683
disodium hydrogenphosphate
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 1.11 g/L Na2HPO4.
8 CaSO4 x 2 H2O
Ca.2H2O.O4S 172.171 g/mol
0.6 G_PER_L CHEBI:32583
calcium sulfate dihydrate
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 0.6 g/L CaSO4 x 2 H2O.

Solutions

FeCl3 x 6 H2O solution (0.03%)

Dose: 10.0 ML_PER_L

Stock composition
IngredientConcentrationNotes
FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.03 PERCENT_W_V MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 0.03 % w/v FeCl3 x 6 H2O.
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 adds 10.0 ml/L FeCl3 x 6 H2O solution at 0.03% w/v.

Nitsch's trace elements

Dose: 10.0 ML_PER_L

CultureMech:013023

Stock composition
IngredientConcentrationNotes
Distilled water 1000.0 ML_PER_L MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 1000.0 ml/L Distilled water.
Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.025 G_PER_L MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 0.025 g/L Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O.
H3BO3 0.5 G_PER_L MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 0.5 g/L H3BO3.
CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.046 G_PER_L MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 0.046 g/L CoCl2 x 6 H2O.
ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 G_PER_L MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 0.5 g/L ZnSO4 x 7 H2O.
CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.016 G_PER_L MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 0.016 g/L CuSO4 x 5 H2O.
MnSO4 x n H2O 2.2 G_PER_L MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 2.2 g/L MnSO4 x n H2O.
H2SO4 0.5 ML_PER_L MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 lists 0.5 ml/L H2SO4.
MediaDive solution 3963 / JCM Medium 273 adds 10.0 ml/L Nitsch's trace elements.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-03-13T06:20:28.949424Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:013022
2026-03-14T00:00:00+00:00 schema-defaulter-v1.0 Applied schema defaults and normalizations Added placeholder ingredients for missing composition
2026-03-14T21:09:33.544606 quality-tagger-v1.0 Added data quality flag Marked as incomplete_composition due to placeholder ingredients
2026-04-04T17:50:20.357310 categorize_unknown_media CATEGORIZED Automated categorization (confidence: 0.30). No clear match, defaulting to bacterial
2026-05-16T09:03:56.489441+00:00 migrate_legacy_fields.py MIGRATED_LEGACY_FIELDS curation_history.date->timestamp=1
2026-06-10T06:38:29.605989+00:00 kg-fallback-consensus-v1.0 Replaced low-confidence kg_fallback chebi_term with corpus consensus Re-grounded 3 chebi_term(s) to the unanimous reliable CHEBI for the ingredient label seen elsewhere in the corpus (G25 Phase 1, zero external lookups).
2026-06-10T06:48:14.313902+00:00 kg-fallback-oak-ols-v1.0 Resolved/de-grounded low-confidence chebi_term via OAK+OLS (G25 Phase 2) 2 chebi_term(s): OAK sqlite:obo:chebi + OLS4 exact agreement, corpus-majority disambiguation, or mixture de-ground.
2026-06-10T06:56:17.301545+00:00 kg-fallback-llm-curation-v1.0 LLM-curated low-confidence chebi_term (G25 Phase 3) 1 chebi_term(s): curator-named compound resolved via OAK+OLS, or de-grounded as a mixture, or confirmed correct.
2026-09-11T00:00:00-07:00 repair_togo_m935_microaerophilic_thermus_score15.py RESOLVED_MEDIADIVE_3963_CASTENHOLZ_BASAL_SALT Restored the JCM Medium 273 Castenholz stock concentrations, corrected false percent-volume FeCl3 and water rows to the source FeCl3 stock addition plus 1000.0 ml/L water, restored the missing Nitsch's trace-elements addition, and removed the placeholder top-level ingredient.