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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Enzymol. 2012;517:89–109. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-404634-4.00005-X

Table 1.

Culture media for isolation of various clades of actinomycetes.

Reference Target actinobacterial clade Agar type Selection criteria
(Wellington and Toth, 1994) General actinomycete Starch-casein Starch and protein as primary growth substrates
Difco General actinomycete Proprietary Proprietary, includes glycerol
(Hamaki et al., 2005) Streptosporangium, Actinomadura Soil extract Growth on soil extract, small colonies picked under microscopic evaluation
(Hop et al., 2011) Actinoplanes, Kineosporia, Cryptosporangia Humic acid-vitamin agar, nalidixic acid, kabicidin Rehydration-centrifugation to select for species with motile spores
(Hop et al., 2011) Micromonospora, Nonomuraea, Streptomyces Humic acid-vitamin agar, nalidixic acid, kabicidin Sodium dodecyl sulfate-yeast extract dilution method
(Tan et al., 2006) Amycolatopsis SM1, SM2, SM3 Combinations of C-sources and antibiotics: sorbitol, melezitose, neomycin, naladixic acid, novobiocin
(Kim et al., 2011) Dactylosporangium Streptomyces isolation agar Gentamicin or oxytetracycline resistance