Diagnostician's Cookbook
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Media recipes
- ATP extraction
- Clarified V8 juice
- Dilute water agar for soil dilution
- Luria broth
- MMC medium
- Martin's rose agar
- WArad
Bacterial Non-selective Media
- 1/10 TSA agar
- Blood agar
- Minimal medium (basic)
- Motility medium
- Nutrient agar
- Nutrient broth
- Sucrose peptone agar
Bacterial Selective Media
- Agrobacterium medium
- CKTM medium
- CMCA (Carboxymethylcellulose agar)
- Corynebacterium medium
- Crystal violet pectate medium (modified)
- Crystal violet pectin
- D1M agar
- Erwinia amylovora selective medium
- Esterase activity (Tween 80 Hydrolysis)
- High sucrose medium
- Hugh-Liefson medium
- Kado's D-1 media for Agrobacterium
- Kado's D-5 media for Xanthomonas and Agrobacterium
- Ketolactose test medium
- Kings medium B
- Lactose broth
- Miller-Schroth Polypectate medium
- Miller-Schroth medium
- Minimal medium (Pseudomonas)
- Pectolytic enzyme detection media
- SCM (Xanthomonas semi-selective medium)
- SX agar
- Simmon's citrate agar
- Tween medium
- Urease production
- Xanthomonas selective medium
- Yeast extract dextrose
Fruiting Structure Induction Media
- Carnation leaf agar
- Carrot agar
- Carrot bait
- Charcoal water
- Chen-Zentmyer salt solution
- Clarified V8 agar
- Enumeration of Sclerotia of Macrophomina phaseolina from plants
- Enumeration of Sclerotia of Macrophomina phaseolina from soil
- Hempseed agar
- Induction of Phytophthora parasitica zoospores with V-8 broth
- Isolation of sclerotia of Macrophomina phaseolina from soil
- Kennedy & Erwin EDTA medium
- Leonian medium
- Mineral salts medium
- Non-sterile soil extract solution (1.5%)
- Oatmeal agar
- Oatmeal agar (modified)
- Pea broth
- Petri medium
- Potato marmite agar
- Rape seed agar
- Rye medium A (modified with anitbiotics)
- Rye medium A (modified)
- Rye seed medium
- Salt solution for sporangia formation of water molds
- Soil extract
- Stimulate sporulation of Phytophthora cactorum on ginseng
- Super V8 agar (modified)
- V8 agar
- V8 broth
- Vegetable oil nitrate agar
Fungal Non-selective Media
- Acid potato dextrose agar
- Acid potato dextrose agar (half strength)
- Actidione malt agar
- Lima bean agar
- Malt extract agar
- Ohio medium
- PDArad
- Potato dextrose agar
- Potato dextrose agar (quarter strength)
- Synthetically nutrient poor agar
- Water agar
Fungal Selective Media
- Armillaria isolation media
- CMR agar
- Carrot juice agar
- Chitin agar
- Cylindrocladium isolation medium
- Cylindrocladium medium
- Czapek solution agar*
- Flower's medium
- GN + media for Rhizoctonia
- Mefenoxam medium
- Minimal medium (trace elements)
- Modified PPP medium
- Ortho-phenyl phenol agar
- P5ARP-V8 medium
- Paecilomyces buxi medium
- Potassium nitrate agar medium
- RB media for Macrophomina
- Sporulation of Pythium spp.
- Stem canker agar
- Thielaviopsis basicola media
- Thielaviopsis medium
Armillaria Media
Aspergillus Media
Cylindrocarpon Media
Fusarium Media
- Carnation leaf agar
- Carrot agar
- Fusarium selective medium
- Komada medium
- Komada-Fusarium medium
- Malachite green agar
- Minimal medium (Fusarium)
- Nash & Snyder Fusarium medium (modified)
- PCNB medium
- Papavizas medium
- Spezieller Nahrstoffarmer agar
Gaeumannomyces Media
Pyrenochaeta Media
Rhizoctonia Media
- Antibiotic water agar
- Flowers media
- Ko and Hora's Media for Rhizoctonia
- TAB for Rhizoctonia
- Thiophanate methyl agar
Verticillium Media
- Alcohol agar
- EtOH agar
- Verticillium dahliae microsclerotia production
- Verticillium medium
- Verticillium population medium
Inoculum Media
Oomycete Selective Media
- Cornmeal PPP medium
- Cornmeal Water
- P10VP+H for Phytophthora megasperma
- PARP
- PARP or PARP + H (modified)
- PARP or PARP+H (USDA Version)
- PARPH-V8
- PVP or PVP+H
- Phytophthora medium (P10VP+H)
- Phytophthora megasperma selective medium
- Pythium (PART)
- Pythium medium (P10VP)
- Pythium oligrandrum semi-selective medium
- Pythium selective medium (P5ARP)
- Sand-Corn meal inoculum for pythium
- V8P10H Phytophthora medium
Diagnostic tests
Bacterial Diagnostic Tests
- Acid and/or Gas production from Carbohydrates
- Aerobe-anaerobe test
- Aesculin hydrolysis
- Arbutin Hydrolysis broth
- Arbutin hydrolysis
- Arbutin hydrolysis (B-Glucosidase)
- Arginine dihydrolase medium
- Arginine dihydrolase test
- Asparagine utilization
- Bacterial isolation
- Bacterial streaking
- Bacterial streaming
- D2ANX medium
- Decarboxylase medium
- Endospore stain
- Erythromycin test
- Gelatin liquefaction
- Hydrogen sulfide production
- Hypersensitivity Reaction (HR)
- Identification of bacterial genera
- KOH test
- L-asparagine solution
- LOPAT scheme for fluorescent Pseudomonads
- Lactose broth
- Lecithinase activity
- Oxidase test
- Phenylalanine agar
- Phosphatase medium
- Phospholipase activity
- Plate count medium
- Poly-B hydroxyrate accumulation
- Potato soft rot test
- Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (Real-time PCR)
- Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Real-time PCR)
- Tests that differentiate pectolytic bacteria
- Tetrazolium medium
- Tobacco hypersensitivity reaction
- Urease production
- Utilization of carbohydrates (standard mineral base)
- Xylella fastidiosa (Real-time PCR)
Conventional PCR
- Fusarium wilt of palms (conventional PCR)
- Identifying Heterodera glycines by PCR-RFLP (Conventional PCR)
- Palm phytoplasmas
Fungal Diagnostic Tests
- Basidiomycete stain
- Detecting yellow tuft in turfgrasses
- Detection of phytophthora in water supplies
- Fusarium wilt of palms (conventional PCR)
- Fusarium wilt of palms (real-time PCR)
- Lactophenol analine-blue
- Minimal medium (trace elements)
- Seed Washing Test
- Single sporing
- Size-selective sieving technique
General Diagnostic Tests
- Agdia pathoscreen indirect ELISA
- Agidia Phytophthora Pathoscreen DAS ELISA
- Autoclaving culture media
- ELISA enzyme conjugate preparation (peroxidase)
- Enzyme conjugate preparation (alkaline phosphatatse)
- Palm phytoplasmas
Nematode Diagnostic Tests
Nested PCR
Oomycete Diagnostic Tests
Real-time PCR
- Fusarium wilt of palms (real-time PCR)
- Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (Real-time PCR)
- Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Real-time PCR)
- Xylella fastidiosa (Real-time PCR)
Sequencing
Viral Diagnostic Tests
- Mechanical Inoculation of plants with tomato spotted wilt virus
- Preparation of materials for substrate-chromophore
- Protocol for tissue blot detection of viral antigens
- Tissue blot technique for detection of viruses
- Virus inclusion stains
- Virus inclusions
Fungal culture storage
Bacterial culture storage
Oomycete culture storage
NPDN Diagnostic Tips
- A Novel Approach to Testing with Immunostrips
- A Simple Diagnostic Technique For Identification of Three Wheat Rust Fungi
- A Simple Solution for an Irritating Lab Task
- An Easy Way to Get Pure Cultures from Fungal Leaf Spots
- Carrot Bait for Thielaviopsis basicola
- Checking for Bacterial Streaming
- Clear Tape Techniques for Plant Disease Diagnostics
- Clearing and Staining Roots and Other Plant Tissues
- Diagnostic Lab Floor Plan and Lab Organization
- Diagnostic Uses for the Inverted Microscope
- Double-Stranded RNA Analysis as a Tool for Diagnosing Plant Viruses
- Float Incubation Technique for Plant Disease Diagnostics
- Forceps Technique Useful for Isolating Pathogens
- Forceps Tip
- Improving Isolation Results
- Long term Refrigerator Storage of Didymella bryoniae and Other Fungi on Filter Paper
- Long-term Freezer Storage of Didymella bryoniae on Filter Paper
- Moist-chamber on Water Agar
- Month: Techniques for Frequently Finicky Fungi Fond of Foiling Identification
- Oak Wilt Testing
- Obtaining Pure Bacterial Colonies and an Alternative to the Gram Stain
- Parafilm Dispenser
- Preparation and Storage of Primers and Probes
- Quick Sectioning Technique
- Re-pointing Forceps
- Soybean Dwarf Virus Testing of Soybeans
- Testing for Races of Aphanomyces euteiches in Alfalfa Soils
- Tool to Ease SCN Egg Extractions
- Two Basic Techniques for Enhancing Detection of Sporulating Fungi
- Using Cheap Filters to Soften Lighting Hot Spots for Digital Imaging
- Using Window Screening as a Strainer for Isolation Material
Diagnostic Lab Manuals
- UMass diagnostic manual
- Arkansas Diagnostic Manual
- Virginia Tech Diagnostic Manual
- Kentucky Diagnostic Manual
Acknowledgments
Thanks to the following individuals and institutions for their contributions to this resource:
- Robert Wick, University of Massachusetts
- Mary Ann Hansen, Virginia Tech
- Sherrie Smith, University of Arkansas
- Tom Creswell, Purdue University
- Gail Ruhl, Purdue University
- Meg Williamson, Clemson University
- Anne Vitoreli, University of Florida
- Paul Vincelli, University of Kentucky
- Paul Bachi, University of Kentucky
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