Description
LB Agar (Luria/Miller), granulated is a solid nutrient medium designed for molecular biology applications that depend on stable plate-based bacterial growth. Delivered as granules The Luria/Miller recipe is a laboratory standard for cultivating Escherichia coli and other common molecular biology hosts on solid media. Granulated presentation aids accurate weighing and even dissolution during autoclave preparation, helping achieve uniform plates batch after batch. Offered from manufacturer Carl ROTH, this medium fits molecular biology suites focused on cloning, library plating and strain archiving. It is suitable for academic core facilities, biotech R&D and teaching laboratories that cast LB plates for antibiotic selection and colony picking. Designation for molecular biology use clarifies its role within nutrient media workflows and supports consistent day-to-day plating performance.
This article is part of Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases), in Culture media & microbiology. See also Petri dishes.
Key features
- Tryptone: 10 g/l
- Yeast extract: 5 g/l
- Sodium chloride (NaCl): 10 g/l
- Agar-Agar: 15 g/l
- pH value: 7,0 ±0,2
- Granulation: complies
- Pack sizes: 500 g, 1 kg, 2.5 kg
- Storage temperature: +15 to +25 °C
- Product type: LB Agar (Luria/Miller)
- Form: granulated
- Technical Information Sheet:
- Safety Data Sheet:
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LB Agar (Luria/Miller), granulated, granulated, for molecular biology, 500 g is the article on this page. Luminix Health distributes Carl Roth for laboratory use. It sits in Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases), inside Culture media & microbiology, in Microbiology lab supplies.
A dehydrated medium is a powder the laboratory dissolves, sterilises and pours. The formulation name, the supplements it still needs, and the grams per litre are the specification. Two powders with similar names, one selective and one not, grow different organisms.
A culture medium is the food and the solid or liquid home of a microorganism. Dehydrated media are powders the laboratory dissolves and sterilises. Ready-to-use plates and tubes are already that. A Petri dish is the plate. Selective media let one kind of organism grow and hold another back. The formulation and the supplements, not the colour of the agar, are the specification. Reference strains are at ATCC. Methods are on PubMed. Biosafety practice is the WHO laboratory biosafety topic.
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