LMEA Agar Plates: Crystal-Clear Growth for Precision Mycology

Why Our LMEA Plates Just Work (The Inocblock Difference)

• Perfect Nutrient Balance: Light Malt Extract Agar provides a gentle, clean nutrient profile that supports fast, healthy mycelial growth without encouraging bacterial blooms.
• Crystal-Clear Visibility: LMEA sets into a light, translucent golden gel, making it extremely easy to spot contamination, sectoring, satellite growth, or off-color organisms.
• Ideal for Genetics Work: LMEA promotes defined growth edges, allowing you to easily identify rhizomorphic sectors, tomentose patches, and clean leading edges for isolation and transfer.
• Consistent Colonization: Because LMEA is not overly rich, mycelium grows in a controlled, uniform pattern — perfect for isolating strains or selecting top-performing genetics.
• Commercial Sterility Assurance: Every batch of agar is mixed, poured, and sealed under HEPA-filtered laminar flow and sterilized at 15 PSI for flawless cleanliness.
• No Caramelization or Cloudiness: Carefully prepared at controlled temperatures to avoid caramelized sugars, giving you clear agar with high visual contrast against mycelium.
• Small Batch, Always Fresh: Plates are poured in small, fast-moving batches so you never receive dried-out, stale, or over-aged agar.

What LMEA Plates Are Used For

• Culture Isolation: Identify clean sectors and isolate top-performing strains from spores, LC, prints, or tissue.
• Contamination Checking: Their clarity makes it easy to detect bacteria, yeast, molds, or off-growth before transferring.
• Agar-to-Agar Transfers: Move healthy edges onto fresh plates for clean culture expansion.
• Cleaning Dirty Samples: Perfect for refining spore prints, syringe LC, environmental swabs, or wild samples.
• Tissue Culture: Clone fruits directly onto LMEA for stable, consistent genetics.
• LC Test Plates: Drop a small LC sample onto a plate to verify sterility before inoculating grain or substrate.
• Slant Preparation: Use LMEA for long-term culture storage and preservation of valuable genetics.