YP AGAR BASE MEDIUM 500 grams/bottle

YP Agar Base Medium is used for the maintenance and the development of yeast in molecular biology procedures. YP Agar Base Medium is also used to cultivate Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts. Yeasts grow well on a medium containing only a minimal amount of glucose and salts. This medium contains glucose (with the addition of dextrose after autoclaving), salts and proteins, which favours the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and reduces growing times. Yeast extract is the source of vitamins, particularly the B-group, essential for bacterial growth. Peptone provides nitrogen, vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Bacteriological agar is the solidifying agent. Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a genome of 14 Mb containing 6.000 genes arranged in 16 chromosomes, which have been completely sequenced, and thus, is a species type in microbiology and genetics studies.