Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Monday, March 30, 2015

Serratia flowers

Serratia marcescens can form brilliant red colonies on LB agar due to the synthesis of the secondary metabolite prodigiosin. In the Microbiology teaching lab, we had students create pigment mutants of S. marcescens and these lovely shades of pink and white were collected for analysis

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Serratia flowers

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