How do I prepare liquid microbial culture into granular form (solid based)?

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Erin Mianda Eggleston

Depending on the medium you generally add 15g/L of agar before you autoclave the medium. If you plan to make plates, once autoclaved, keep in the medium in a water bath 50-55C to keep liquid while it cools enough to pour.

Tapajyoti Sasmal

But that is for isolation of microbial clony. I want to know the procedure to convert liquid based microbial finished product to powder form.

I misunderstood your question, I'm not sure about desiccating a current culture into a powder.

Ravinder Kumar

Lypholization,spray drying and immobilization with alginate could be the easiest approach for the same.