medium no. 60: 1/2 modified Murashige and Skoog medium, 1 mg/L kinetin, 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

  • MS_VT

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    Nicotinic acid

    0.5

    Pyridoxine·HCl

    0.5

    Thiamine·HCl

    0.1

    Glycine

    2

  • MS_inositol

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    myo-Inositol

    40

  • Kinetin (0.2 mg/mL)

    Chemical

    Concentration (mg/mL)

    Kinetin

    0.2

    Dissolve kinetin in small volume of KOH (1 N), and fill up with distilled water

  • KOH (1 N)

Medium preparation

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

    Chemical

    Amount

    MS salt mix

    0.5 bag (equivalent with 0.5 L)

    Sucrose

    30 g

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

    Stock solution

    Volume (mL)

    MS_VT

    0.5

    MS_inositol

    1.25

    Kinetin (0.2 mg/mL)

    5

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

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

Formulation

Chemical

Concentration (mg/L)

KNO3

950

NH4NO3

825

CaCl2·2H2O

220

MgSO4·7H2O

185

KH2PO4

85

H3BO3

3.1

MnSO4·4H2O

11.15

ZnSO4·7H2O

4.3

KI

0.415

Na2MoO4·2H2O

0.125

CuSO4·5H2O

0.0125

CoCl2·6H2O

0.0125

FeSO4·7H2O

13.9

Na2-EDTA

18.65

Nicotinic acid

0.25

Pyridoxine·HCl

0.25

Thiamine·HCl

0.05

Glycine

1

myo-Inositol

50

Sucrose

30000

Kinetin

1