culture medium

BTO:0000316 ·resolve ·ENGINEERED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A substance, either solid or liquid, used for the cultivation, isolation, identification, or storage of microorganisms. — BTO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Engineered > Lab culture > Culture media 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	273	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

Lab culture habitatmech:GOLD.f8fb18f2a0

Also called

Culture media — GOLD

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0000316 'culture medium' (EXACT). GOLD's Lab culture > Culture media. BTO:0000316 culture medium is the exact concept. Related curation lives in the sibling CultureMech repo. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.1d91123b55)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.