Luria Broth is supplied by Micromaster. It is available in the form of a cream to yellow homogeneous free flowing powder which has a pH in the range of 6.8 to 7.2. It is advisable to store this product below 30C.

Quantity provided: 500 g/pack

Luria Broth is one of the many modifications, suggested by different authors, of the original formulation of Luria. This medium is generally used for molecular and genetic studies, because of its nutritive capacity and simple composition, which can be easily altered as per specific requirements. Addition of glucose helps to prepare the complete medium formulated by Lennox. Luria Broth contains half the concentration of sodium chloride than in Luria Broth, Miller. Luria Broth is used for the cultivation and maintenance of recombinant strains of E. coli, originally derived from E.coli strain K12, deficient in B vitamin production. These stains are specifically mutated to create an auxotrophic strain, unable to grow on a nutritionally deficient medium. Luria Broth is a nutritionally rich medium due to the presence of casein enzymic hydrolysate and yeast extract. This allows the recombinant strains of E. coli to grow more rapidly since all the nutrients and essential growth nutrients required by these strains are readily available to them and they dont need to synthesize it themselves including B-vitamin. Sodium chloride maintains the osmotic equilibrium.