I have tried it but doesnt work, im trying zarrouk medium and it seems working well. Im trying the medium by Andersen (Spirulina Medium (Aiba and Ogawa) Hope it works, I got the Spirulina from UTEX.
You can use BG-11 medium + Vitamin B12 supplement as enrichment media
yes you can Isolate of Spirulina spp. and performing by streaking plate method of Stein (1973) using BG-11 agar medium.
Spirulina is one of those things that grows for a while and then dies for no obvious reason. It will grow in BG-11 plus 100 mM Sodium carbonate and 1 M NaCl.
The cosmic organic goodness Spirulina pills you can buy in health stores are usually viable and you usually can get a culture going by just throwing a pill into some sterile medium.
Hi dear Lawrence
Yes, Spirulina Spp can growing in BG11 culture medium, but Zarrouk medium is better than other culture media for growing Spirulina Spp in laboratory scale.
In oder than, Zarrouk’s medium (ZM) was the best medium in terms of biomass productivity, while BG11 medium gave the highest chlorophyll, carotenoid, phycocyanin, and allophycocyanin contents.
Good luck
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