Czapek’s Agar (CZA) – Composition, Principle, Preparation, Results, Uses
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Czapek medium (also known as Czapek’s agar or Czapek Dox medium) is a medium used to grow fungi and other organisms. This medium is suitable for qualitative cultivation of soil bacteria and saprophytic fungi. Czapek originally created the medium in 1902 to cultivate saprophytic mushrooms. Czapek-Dox Agar, a modified formula of the Czapek (1902-1903) and Dox (1910) formulas, is prepared according to Thom & Church. Medium contains sucrose as the only source of carbon, and nitrate is the only inorganic nitrogen source.