From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Mon May 22 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!sol.ccs.deakin.edu.au!pc-rbp161.sci.deakin.edu.au!drierac From: drierac@deakin.edu.au (Chris Driver) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: slime Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 16:59:19 Organization: Deakin University Lines: 10 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pc-rbp161.sci.deakin.edu.au X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] A solution I have found to prevent the appearence of slime is to use a medium in which glucose replaces sucrose. The idea is not mine, it came from a old DIS note which I can't place. The idea was that the higher osmotic pressure has bacteriostatic/fungistatic activity. Chris Driver, Ph D School of Biology and Chemistry, Rusden Campus Deakin University 662 Blackburn Rd Clayton, VIC, 3168 AUSTRALIA .