White’s Basal Salt Mixture
SIGMA/W0876 - powder, suitable for plant cell culture
Product Type: Chemical
| application(s) | agriculture |
| form | powder |
| Quality Level | 200 ![]() |
| storage temp. | 2-8°C |
| technique(s) | cell culture | plant: suitable |
| Application: | White′s Basal Salt Mixture has been used: • as a medium for the precultured spores of Prothalli of Adiantum capillus for the generation of protonemata • to promote germination and cotton cotyledon unfolding • as a solidified medium component for culturing A. capillus and as a component of selection medium for gametophyte selection after particle bombardment |
| General description: | White′s Basal Salt Mixture is widely used in plant tissue culture. |
| Preparation Note: | With the macro- and micronutrients as described by White (1968). Media Formulation ![]() |
| Symbol | ![]() ![]() ![]() GHS03,GHS05,GHS08,GHS09 |
| Signal word | Danger |
| Hazard statements | H272 - H318 - H373 - H411 |
| Precautionary statements | P210 - P220 - P273 - P280 - P305 + P351 + P338 - P314 |
| Hazard Codes | Xn,N |
| Risk Statements | 48/20/22-51/53 |
| Safety Statements | 61 |
| RIDADR | UN1477 - class 5.1 - PG 2 - EHS - Nitrates, inorganic, n.o.s., H |
| WGK Germany | WGK 2 |
| Flash Point(F) | Not applicable |
| Flash Point(C) | Not applicable |
| Storage Temp. | 2-8°C |
| UNSPSC | 12352207 |





