Team:DTU-Denmark/Experiments

Experiments

All media was prepared before 11 am to be autoclaved. The actual weights of the different media was:

MEA Media
Materials Weight (g) Weight (g) Weight (g)
Malt extract 47.6 49.9 52.5
ZnSO4·7H2O 0.01 0.012 0.01
CuSO4·5H2O 0.05 0.049 0.051
Agar 14.99 14.99 15.04
PDB Media
Potato dextrose extract Weight (g) Weight (g) Weight (g)
Malt extract 19.54 39.12 58.56
ZnSO4·7H2O 0.012 0.012 0.0107
CuSO4·5H2O 0.0056 0.0053 0.0049
Agar 15.02 15.04 15.04

All media were stirred with a magnetic stirrer at around 110 degrees Celsius and 1000 rpm until homologous.
The species available (Pleuratus ostreatus) was inoculated on the solid PDA and MEA agar plates with a sterile toothpick under a fume hood and left at 30 degrees Celsius. It was on Monday discovered that the sample given was of mycelia without any spores and the process was redone.