water agar

[Russ Bulluck]

Water agar refers to a solid medium of agar (could be any brand i.e.
Difco, Fisher, etc) and water that's autoclaved and poured onto plates.
The usual concentration is 15-20 g of agar per liter.

HYUN C KIM wrote:

> Hi, I read a few articles on the nematophagous fungi, and have came
> across a few mentiong about the "water agar" which is believed to be
> used in counting infected nematodes by nematophagous destroying fungi.
> can anyone who knows about this please tell me what this "water agar"
> supposed use? or even its composition? Any lead to this clue will be
> much appriciated! thank you!

--
--------------------
Russ Bulluck
Visiting Post-Doctoral Scholar
Department of Plant Pathology
1 Shields Ave
UC-Davis
Davis, CA  95616
lrbulluck at ucdavis.edu
-------------------------------------------------------------
The soil population is so complex that it manifestly cannot
be dealt with as a whole with any detail by any one person,
and at the same time it plays so important a part in the soil
economy that it must be studied.
--Sir E. John Russell
The Micro-organisms of the Soil, 1923
-------------------------------------------------------------