Following Patrick Weix's suggestion that sodium propionate might be
useful to prevent mold contamination of worm plates, we made up a
batch containing 0.5%. I spread these plates with E coli DA837 (a
derivative of OP50), and the bacteria didn't grow. Conceivably one
could isolate a propionate-resistant E coli strain, but I don't think
I'm going to try.
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Leon Avery (214) 648-2420 (office)
Department of Biochemistry -2768 (lab)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center -8856 (fax)
5323 Harry Hines Blvd leon at eatworms.swmed.edu
Dallas, TX 75235-9038 http://eatworms.swmed.edu/~leon/
