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Getting started

  • What xPlant is for
  • Organizing Your First Tissue Culture

Tissue culture concepts

  • Plants, explants, and stages
  • Media recipes and additives
  • Contamination tracking basics
  • Intro to Plant Tissue Culture
  • Tissue Culture Basics

Lab workflows

  • Record a transfer
  • Batch Tracker
  • Create and use SOPs
  • Comments and team context
  • Lab rooms
  • Managing tasks

Protocols

  • Protocols and SOPs — what's the difference?
  • Sterilization and aseptic technique
  • Media preparation protocol

Lab tools

  • QR labels and scanner

Developer tools

  • Developer API & JavaScript SDK

Account and support

  • Privacy and data controls
  • AI features and smart suggestions

Tissue culture concepts

Media recipes and additives

Media recipes in xPlant document tissue culture formulations and keep media context connected to culture work. Link a recipe to a Plant or Explant, and record a Media Recipe on a Transfer when applicable, so the formulation used can be reviewed alongside culture history.

What this guide covers

  1. 1Why documented recipes matter
  2. 2Creating a recipe
  3. 3Additive types
  4. 4Linking a media recipe to culture work
  5. 5Related guides

This one is for xPlant labs

The steps in this guide describe screens inside xPlant, so it reads best with a lab open beside it. Sign in to walk through it with your own records, or see what a lab includes.

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New to tissue culture? These two are open to everyone.

  • Intro to Plant Tissue Culture
  • Tissue Culture Basics