Trace amounts of furan-2-carboxylic acids determine the quality of solid agar plates for bacterial culture.

BACKGROUND: Many investigators have recognised that a significant proportion of environmental bacteria exist in a viable but non-culturable state on agar plates, and some researchers have also noticed that some of such bacteria clearly recover their growth on matrices other than agar. However, the r...

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Main Authors: Shintaro Hara, Reika Isoda, Teemu Tahvanainen, Yasuyuki Hashidoko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3407156?pdf=render