Murashige and Skoog Modified Basal Salt Mixture

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Murashige and Skoog Modified Basal Salt Mixture

Murashige and Skoog medium can be reconstituted from powder or by combining products that are major components of complete M&S medium, such as macronutrient mixtures and vitamin mixtures. Murashige and Skoog Salt mixture contain the macronutrients and micronutrients of the original classic formulation without ammonium nitrate. It can be combined with M&S vitamins or Gamborg’s vitamins and supplemented with sucrose, agar, auxins (IAA) and cytokinins (Kinetin) to generate a complete medium for growth plant tissue culture. This product is plant cell culture tested.

Murashige and Skoog medium is a widely used plant tissue culture growth medium. M&S Basal Medium contains macronutrients that include high levels of nitrate and organic additives such as agar, sugars, vitamins and growth regulators. Important growth regulators frequently added to M&S include IAA (auxin/morphogen) and the Kinetin (cytokinin/cell division promoter).

Powder

Store at 2-8 centigrade.

Murashige and Skoog Modified Basal Salt Mixture; w/o Ammonium Nitrate