medium no. 51: modified Linsmaier and Skoog medium, 0.2 mg/L 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, 200 mg/L kanamycin, 500 mg/L carbenicillin, 0.4% (w/v) gellan gum, pH 5.8

Plant cell lines

Chemicals and stock solutions

(All stock solutions are stored at 4°C)

  • MS salt mix

    Murashige and Skoog Plant Salt Mixture, FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation (#392-00591)

  • Sucrose

  • BY2_P

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    KH2PO4

    80

  • LS_VT_modified

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    Thiamine·HCl

    0.4

    myo-Inositol

    40

  • 2,4-D (0.2 mg/mL)

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    2,4-D sodium monohydrate

    0.236

    (2,4-Dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid sodium salt monohydrate, Sigma-Aldrich (D6679)

  • Kanamycin (200 mg/mL)

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    Kanamycin sulfate

    200

    Sterilize the solution by membrane filtration

  • Carbenicillin (500 mg/mL)

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    Carbenicillin disodium salt

    500

    Sterilize the solution by membrane filtration

  • Gellan gum

    Gellan gum, FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation (#073-03071)

  • KOH (1 N)

Medium preparation

  1. Dissolve the following chemicals in approximately 800 mL of distilled water.

    Chemical

    Amount

    MS salt mix

    1 bag (1 L)

    Sucrose

    30 g

  2. Add following stock solutions, and fill up to approximately 950 mL with distilled water.

    Stock solution

    Volume (mL)

    BY2_P

    2.5

    LS_VT_modified

    2.5

    2,4-D (0.2 mg/mL)

    1

  3. Adjust the pH of the solution to 5.8 with KOH (1 N), and fill up to 1 L with distilled water.

  4. Add 4 g of gellan gum to the medium.

  5. Autoclave the medium at 121°C for 20 min.

  6. Add the following antibiotics to the medium just before agar solidification and swirl the medium gently to mix.

    Stock solution

    Volume (mL)

    Kanamycin (200 mg/mL)

    1

    Carbenicillin (500 mg/mL)

    1

Formulation

Chemical

Concentration (mg/L)

KNO3

1900

NH4NO3

1650

CaCl2·2H2O

440

MgSO4·7H2O

370

KH2PO4

370

H3BO3

6.2

MnSO4·4H2O

22.3

ZnSO4·7H2O

8.6

KI

0.83

Na2MoO4·2H2O

0.25

CuSO4·5H2O

0.025

CoCl2·6H2O

0.025

FeSO4·7H2O

27.8

Na2-EDTA

37.3

Thiamine·HCl

1

myo-Inositol

100

Sucrose

30000

2,4-D sodium monohydrate

0.236

Kanamycin sulfate

200

Carbenicillin disodium salt

500

Gellan gum

4000