Pure Culture
Pure Culture
Pure Culture
Isolation of a pure strain can be carried out in principle in stages. The first level is free to do manually
by diluting it as far as possible, often to 10-4 or 10-6.The second level is by media that is selective for
certain microbes or certain microbes that may still be in the same group. The third level of the colony,
which seems to be possible, still needs to be re-diluted or re-isolated in order to be more convincing.
proof that the isolate strains obtained are really pure strains (Mulyono, 1992).The working principle of
bacterial isolation is quite simple, namely by inoculating a small number of bacteria in a certain
medium that can constrain bacterial life.
The purpose of culture transfer is to master the technique of transferring bacterial cultures from one
container to another aseptically, so that only the expected pure culture grows. This is especially
important in the early stages of microbial isolation work, especially those derived from culture stocks
(not from substrates).
Samples needed for
isolation
Before isolating, sampling is first carried out. Various sampling according to the place:
1. Soil sample
If the desired microorganism is in the soil, then the way of taking it is adapted to the
purpose. For example, if what is desired is rhizosphere microorganisms, then samples are
taken from around the roots near the soil surface.
2. Water sample
The retrieval technique is simply to open the lid of the petri dish containing sterile media
for ±5 minutes.