Please look at the following attached picture and suggest the bacteria in the petriplate?

medium in the plate is Rhizobium medium used for isolation of Rhizobium.

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Please somebody send me what are the max. permissible limit of heavy metal in soil in india?

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Why when I incubate Pseudomonas in medium with cetrimide for 10 days do I get the following patterns?

31 December 2014 3,308 8 View

How can I resolve a band of more than 23kb size on agarose gel?

I am isolating Plasmid from bacteria which is more than 23kb in size. I am using 0.8% Agarose gel on 100V and lambda DNA as marker. I am always getting band at size of 23 kb. I also used supermix...

07 August 2014 7,936 5 View

How does FAME analysis of bacteria help in deciding the novelty of bacteria?

I did sequencing and identified my bacteria by blast in NCBI. I feel my bacteria is of novel strain. Will FAME analysis prove to be useful in deciding the novelty of my bacteria?

03 April 2014 8,307 3 View

What is the difference between Global Impact Factor and Universal Impact factor? Which one is more effective?

I am confused regarding the impact factor criteria of the journals.

01 February 2014 7,679 5 View

What is the difference between minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and maximum tolerable concentration (MTC)?

I have to determine MIC and MTC of heavy metals. What is the method to determine both?

09 October 2013 1,466 7 View

Can anyone please tell me the institution offering SEM service for bacterial sample in India?

I am interested for Electron microscopy for my Bacterial sample. I want information regarding the various institutions in india offering this service at reasonable rate.

05 June 2013 897 25 View

Can anyone help me to identify why did I get color change yellow from green in citrate utilization test?

some bacteria is giving the positive result as expected i.e. blue to green but some is giving color change to yellow from green. I taken care of pH while preparing the media. I am attaching the...

05 June 2013 6,396 9 View

I have 1.5kb of PCR amplified products and if I go for partial sequencing up to 1kb only, will that information be useful for bacterial identification?

1.5kb of PCR amplified products of bacterial DNA.

02 March 2013 7,833 13 View

How to normalise data on OPM package from R Studio ?

Good afternoon, I recently used OmniLog from BIOLOG for my experimentations : I tested the metabolism of different strains on 2 types of plates. I have 16 strains of 3 different groups...

02 March 2021 3,584 1 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration fors?

Warm greetings My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology (on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 1,660 3 View

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration forms?

Warm greetings! My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology focusing on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample (Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 3,612 3 View

Advice on growing lactobacillus species in the lab?

Hello everyone, For part of my PhD project, I'm hoping to grow some lactobacillus species in the lab so that I can create standard curves for a qPCR quantification of a faecal sample. However, I...

24 February 2021 3,157 6 View

Differences between sheep blood with Alsever solution vs citrated/defibrinated sheep blood in microbiological media?

I am aware of a study that has compared the use of citrated and defibrinated sheep's blood in microbiological media (Hair Sheep Blood, Citrated or Defibrinated, Fulfills All Req... ), but can...

10 February 2021 5,927 1 View

Hi everyone, I want to lower the pH of microbiological broth, what are the best options?

I will be using the lowered pH broth for MIC test of some disinfectants, and I do not want the acid to have any interfernece with MIC results.

03 February 2021 6,959 4 View

How do microbes tell the presence of an inorganic minaral in the soil?

Due to their ubiquitous nature, there is a tendency of the presence of microbes in a given mineral(s). For instance, if microorganisms that love the of pH less than 6 in the pH value, is isolated...

03 February 2021 4,630 10 View

How do you quantify bacterial qPCR data?

Hi all, How would you use qPCR to quantify the amount of a particular bacterial species in a sample experimentally? I understand you could use specific primers for the 16s V region of a...

01 February 2021 7,153 4 View

How can I know the stationary phase of growth of several bacteria?

How can I know the stationary phase of growth of several bacteria? We are aiming to collect exoproteome of several bacteria. We know that the ideal time to collect exoproteome is during the...

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