Does any of you have protocols for tissue culture dosage/usage of the following drugs: Rifampicin, Iopanoic acid Hexetidine?

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Lani Irvin

Hi Narin,

For rifampicin our lab uses 20 mg/L. There are many agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation articles you can reference to. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for.

Daurys Noel Suárez García

In plant tissue culture I have used 5 to 10 mg/L of Rifampicine in the culture medium to eliminate endogenous bacteria with good results.