Bacterial Plating and Colony Isolation: Solid medium for streaking and isolating single colonies of E. coli and other nonpathogenic lab strains.

Transformation Selection: Supports antibiotic selection of transformed E. coli colonies carrying recombinant plasmids.

Blue-White Screening: Used with X-gal/IPTG for lacZ α-complementation screening of cloning inserts in E. coli.

Phage Plaque Assays: Suitable agar base for M13 and filamentous phage titration and plaque formation on E. coli lawns.

Plasmid Maintenance: Growth and maintenance of recombinant plasmid-bearing E. coli strains on selective plates.

Colony PCR Sampling: Source plates for picking colonies as DNA templates for downstream PCR verification.

CFU Enumeration: Quantification of viable bacterial counts from liquid cultures or dilutions.

Strain Preservation and Tracking: Short-term storage and routine passaging of E. coli laboratory strains on agar plates.

Library Screening: Plating of combinatorial or phage display libraries for clone selection in E. coli.

General Microbiology Teaching and QC: Convenient ready-to-use agar for instructional labs and basic quality control checks.