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Start a culture line

A culture line is one line of tissue culture, started from a plant in your collection. From the first day, each cup it's in is a jar with its own label.

Pro plan
  1. Open Tissue Culture and choose Start culture, or Start culture from this plant on the plant's Tissue Culture tab.
  2. Pick the source plant and the explant (leaf, node, shoot tip…).
  3. Choose the protocol and the media batch you poured, and the stage it starts at.
  4. Say how many containers the explants went into. Each becomes a jar, numbered 1, 2, 3…
  5. Set the subculture interval, then Start culture. Print the jars' labels straight away.
Start culture line: the source plant, explant, protocol, media and interval.
Start culture line: the source plant, explant, protocol, media and interval.

The Cultures tab lists every line with its stage, status, round and media.

Culture lines, with mother lines on a shelf of their own above the list.
Culture lines, with mother lines on a shelf of their own above the list.

Related

Jars, rounds and a line's progressHow jars are numbered round by round, and the progress card on every line.Complete a subcultureRecord a round jar by jar: what each jar went into, the media, and what you saw.Mother linesFlag the lines you keep as stock to start new lines from, and find them at a glance.
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