Vegetative

The plan is to see if germination can be stimulated by certain (non nutrient/physiological) chemicals. Therefore I need to allow for the growth of vegetative cells which have germinated yet i need to rule out the chance of the media alone causing germination.

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I don't get this. You are using spores and you are trying to find a media that does not stimulate germination but supports vegetative cells? How does that work? If they are in spore form that is because they are in unsuitable conditions. So how can some be in vegetative form and some ...

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... project using spores of B.subtilis and B.cereus. I need to prepare a minimal media which does not stimulate germination but supports growth of the vegetative cells. I'm having a really hard time finding out what type of minimal media is suitable for these organisms and my requirements. Someone ...

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... a plot gives you the advantage of assigning relevant reference data to your collected data. For example, if you are trying to determine the total vegetative production in an area, you can make a plot of a known size, find the production in that plot, and then expand your results to extrapolate ...

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... the sole survivors on this planet: there'd always be lots of habitats that are inhabitable for bacteria - mainly very dry (or cold) places, where vegetative bacteria survive only when living as symbiots or parasites on multicellular organisms that can survive there. So in other words, even if ...

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