Agar Plates | Teknova

All your agar essentials

We take care of all your agar media needs so you can rely on a consistent, predictable source for your bacterial, yeast, and fungal growth.

With our fully customizable pre-poured agar plates, flexible formats, and fast delivery, we can meet the needs of your specific application.

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Agar plates in various colors and formats

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With custom antibiotic formulations, animal-free options, and our scientific expertise, we can help you overcome growth challenges, so you get the reliable results you need to move your science forward.

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Flexible formats

All shapes and sizes

We offer agar in pre-poured plates and tubes or dispensed into bottles to save on storage. Our formats range from standard round 100 mm plates to multi-well oblong plates for high-throughput robotic applications and gridded contact plates for environmental monitoring.

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Eliminate a variable in

your experiments

Our comprehensive quality control system is designed for your peace of mind. Incoming raw materials are screened for growth performance before being implemented on the floor, and final formulations are tested for consistency so you get reliable results from first plate to last in every batch.

Get in touch to learn more about how we ensure performance to help accelerate your breakthroughs.

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We have developed a breadth of tests for our customers' unique applications, handpicking 27 bacterial and 8 fungal strains to establish proprietary predictive growth patterns that include a variety of antibiotic combinations. We perform tests daily, inspecting growth patterns for efficiency and consistency.

We screen the first and last plates in every lot for sterility and performance to help ensure batch-to-batch consistency so you get reproducible results.

We have refined our products and testing to make sure you get optimal shelf life when it gets to your lab. We can perform custom stability testing for your unique storage conditions.

We maintain retention samples for the lifespan of the product, so we can continually test its integrity.

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Get a custom solution made to your specifications

Ask our experts about our custom agar media options, including animal-free materials, different carbon sources, additives (IPTG, X-Gal), and a variety of antibiotic types and concentrations.

We can combine up to five antibiotics in a single agar plate, and we can also use materials that you provide to make plates, bringing our rigorous quality control process to your proprietary products, including implementing unique strains based on your application.

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Did you know?

Our standard 100 mm round pre-poured plates come in our proprietary easy-dispense Teknova sleeves. They’re designed to maintain sterility by minimizing environmental exposure as they are dispensed and are heat shrink-wrapped for added protection. 

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All our products are fully customizable, from formulation to format to fill volume. Our experts can help find the ideal solution for your application and efficiently manufacture your custom product.

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