What type of lamp should I use for illuminating 4-choice olfactometer experiments with Callosobruchus spp?

I've been trying to do olfactometer experiments with Callosobruchus spp. (Coleoptera: Bruchinae) for two months, but the results are unreliable. I have two arms for beans and the other two arms...

23 March 2020 9,938 3 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Can bacterial suspension be pipetted directly onto petri dish and agar poured onto it?

Hi, recently I encountered a protocol for plating which was not the usual method I have been practicing (pour LB agar onto plate, allow it to solidify, pipette bacterial suspension onto plate,...

28 February 2021 7,292 3 View

Difficulty in cloning of 1kb gene into vector?

I am facing difficulties in cloning a 1kb gene into a vector (pJIT163). I have my gene on interest (GOI) in pUC57 and want to clone in pJIT163 using SalI and BamHI restriction sites. I am getting...

25 February 2021 3,221 7 View

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

Can one use just 250 micron sieve & still get a good number of mycorrhizal spores from the soil?

In a situation where one cannot get the appropriate & separate levels of sieve for mycorrhizal survey work, can just one level of sieve give good results & spore counts?

13 February 2021 3,760 2 View

How do I change g/l into mM for bacto agar. I am trying to get the millimolar content of sodium and chloride percentage in bacto agar. How do I do it?

I am doing a salt tolerance-related experiment and for that I need to relate my salt levels to that in bacto agar. I don't want my salt concentrations to increase due to already salt content...

09 February 2021 4,158 1 View

Which fungicide are good for primary cells? Does it yeast contamination? How to get rid of them without killing the cells? How to get rid of spores?

Hello! Our lab is working with primary cells which we are isolating from the colorectal tissue. During the isolation, we are washing the tissue with pen-strep and then also add some pen-strep in...

07 February 2021 8,258 3 View

Transformation into the Stbl3 chemo competent cells?

03 February 2021 1,111 5 View

How to Remove DNA From a Sample Without Rupturing Yeast?

I transformed a plasmid into yeast and selected for transformants by growing them in a selective media (liquid, not agar plate). My experiment requires that I continually grow/ split these...

01 February 2021 9,936 2 View

What is the composition of the solid and broth agar to grow Streptomyces from freezed sample? what are extraction steps of products from broth agar?

Please what are the composition of the solid agar could I use to grow the bacteria? what are the composition of the broth agar could I use to grow the bacteria and how to extract the natural...

26 January 2021 5,006 1 View