Murashige and Skoog Basal Salts with minimal organics
SIGMA/M6899 - powder, suitable for plant cell culture
Synonym: MSMO
Product Type: Chemical
| application(s) | agriculture |
| form | powder |
| Quality Level | 200 ![]() |
| storage temp. | 2-8°C |
| technique(s) | cell culture | plant: suitable |
| Application: | Murashige and Skoog medium is a widely used plant tissue culture growth medium. M&S Basal Medium contains macronutrients that include high levels of nitrate and organic additives such as agar, sugars, vitamins and growth regulators. Important growth regulators frequently added to M&S include IAA (auxin/morphogen) and the Kinetin (cytokinin/cell division promoter). |
| Preparation Note: | Formulated to contain 4.4 grams of powder per liter of medium. |
| Preparation Note: | Murashige and Skoog medium can be reconstituted from powder or by combining products that are major components of complete M&S medium, such as macronutrient mixtures and vitamin mixtures. Murashige and Skoog Shoot Multiplication Medium A (M6899 is a variant media) with macro- and micronutrients, vitamins as described by Linsmaier and Skoog. |
| Preparation Note: | With the macro- and micronutrients, and vitamins as described by Linsmaier and Skoog (1965). Media Formulation ![]() |
| Symbol | ![]() GHS03,GHS07 |
| Signal word | Danger |
| Hazard statements | H272 - H319 |
| Precautionary statements | P210 - P220 - P264 - P280 - P337 + P313 - P370 + P378 |
| Hazard Codes | O,Xi |
| Risk Statements | 8-36/37/38 |
| Safety Statements | 26 |
| RIDADR | UN 1477 5.1 / PGII |
| WGK Germany | WGK 1 |
| Flash Point(F) | Not applicable |
| Flash Point(C) | Not applicable |
| Storage Temp. | 2-8°C |
| UNSPSC | 12352207 |



