Agar plates may also be indicator plates, in which the organisms are not selected on the basis of growth, but are instead distinguished by a color change in some colonies, typically caused by the action of an enzyme on some compound added to the media.

Agar may also mean:

It also includes a first meeting between Holmes and Doctor Moore Agar, whose " dramatic introduction to Holmes " was one Watson, in the original Arthur Conan Doyle story " The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ", wrote that he " may some day recount.

Agar ( agar-agar ) can be used as a laxative, an appetite suppressant, vegetarian gelatin substitute, a thickener for soups, in fruit preserves, ice cream, and other desserts, as a clarifying agent in brewing, and for sizing paper and fabrics.

Agar is typically sold commercially as a powder that can be mixed with water and prepared similarly to gelatin before use as a growth medium.

Agar is a popular gelatin substitute in quick jelly powder mix and prepared dessert gels that can be stored at room temperature.

Several of the actors would be re-united in the 1970 western Chisum ( 1970 ): John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker, and Richard Jaeckel.

Oscar Werner Tiegs and Wilfred Eade Agar later showed McDougall's results to be incorrect, caused by poor experimental controls.

Many models of local San Diego structures can be identified on the layout, including an intricate scale model of San Diego's Santa Fe Depot, the Western Metal Supply Building, the Carrizo Gorge's Goat Canyon Trestle, Palomar Observatory, the American Agar building, and the Carlsbad, California flower fields and power plant.

Captain Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO, RN ( 4 January 1890 – 30 December 1968 ) was a noted Royal Navy officer in both World War I and World War II and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

But, mutiny soon broke out on the Askold, and Agar was shocked to see his officer friends arrested one by one and taken ashore, not to be seen again.

Agar felt that his small force should be doing more than acting as a shuttle service.

The last attempt seemed set to be successful until the command ship with Agar aboard, HMS Hambledon, a Hunt class destroyer, hit an acoustic mine mid-Channel and was severely damaged.

The arches at the corner of the walls contain the inscription of the famous verse of the 13th century Sufi poet Amir Khusrow, which reads – " Agar Firdaus Bar Rooe Zaminast Haminasto Haminasto Haminast " (" If there be a paradise on the earth, it is this, it is this, it is this ").

In July or August Pierce discovered that the safe locks were to be returned to Chubb for alterations and Agar was informed that Tester would briefly have the new keys in his possession after this was done.

The name of Agar Town is commemorated by Agar Grove, a road that runs along the edge of where Agar Town used to be, and which was originally called St Paul's Road.

She worked on the 22nd Bond adventure Quantum of Solace and reprised her role as M. She is interested in horse racing and in partnership with her chauffeur Bryan Agar owns a four-year-old horse, " Smokey Oakey ", who won the 2008 Brigadier Gerard Stakes.

In 1835, Corot created a sensation at the Salon with his biblical painting Agar dans le desert ( Hagar in the Wilderness ), which depicted Hagar, Sarah's handmaiden, and the child Ishmael, dying of thirst in the desert until saved by an angel.

The yields of Salmonella from stool samples obtained, when using this medium, are higher than those obtained with LEIFSON Agar or Salmonella – Shigella agar ( SSA ).

Other writers associated with the Agrarians include Caroline Gordon, Brainard Cheney and Herbert Agar.

Carlisle United won their first game in the Football League Third Division North with the side of Prout, Coulthard, Cook, Harrison, Ross, Pigg, Agar, Hutchison, McConnell, Ward and Watson beating Accrington Stanley 3 – 2.

He was the thirteenth child of John Shelton Agar, an Irishman from County Kerry, who had left his native land in 1860 to become a successful tea planter in Ceylon, taking a pack of foxhounds with him.

Agar was brought up in comfortable circumstances in a fine house with servants.

In 1910 Agar passed his seamanship examination with flying colours and was made an acting sub-Lieutenant.

Agar was aboard the Hibernia when World War I broke out and soon sailed with her to Britain's wartime base at Scapa Flow.

While at Murmansk, Agar had the opportunity to renew acquaintance with Russian officer friends from the cruiser Askold, which was berthed alongside.

These were very happy years for Agar, in a friendly country with interesting work and regular cruises through the South Seas.

Agar then served as Captain of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, England, but with war in the offing he was returned to command of the Emerald in the summer of 1939.

Emerald had just returned to Scapa on 1 October 1939 when Agar received " Top Secret " orders to proceed " with all despatch " to Plymouth, England.

Agar was in charge of the planning and execution of Operation Lucid in September 1940, an attempt to hit the German wooden invasion barges at Boulogne and Calais, France, with incendiary material and set them alight.

Accompanied by various auxiliary vessels, Agar set off for Boulogne several times in September and October 1940 with four small ancient oil tankers filled with a special incendiary fuel ( called Agar's special mixture ).

Dorsetshire was not equipped to operate in an area with enemy aircraft and Agar was attempting to add antiaircraft guns in Colombo and to dismantle and refit her engines and boilers to meet the challenges ahead when word arrived that an enemy fleet had entered the Indian Ocean.

When the Dorsetshire sank, Agar had been dragged down deep and suffered the bends while coming up, with serious damage to his lungs.

Augustus Agar was described by Alfred Draper in his book, " Operation Fish ", as a "... slim, impeccably-uniformed man with an extremely courteous manner ...".

Neil Agar, a security agent with the State Department, is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of John Grubowsky, a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Research.

The peerage was created with remainder to the three eldest sons of his sister Anne by her husband Henry Agar, of Gowran.

Unwilling to further delay their plans, Pierce manages to smuggle Agar into the baggage van inside a coffin and then risks his life by climbing across the roof of the train during their journey and unlocking the door from the outside, thus allowing them to drop off the gold at a pre-arranged point.

Agar is used throughout the world to provide a solid surface containing medium for the growth of bacteria and fungi.

Mannitol is the primary ingredient of Mannitol Salt Agar, a bacterial growth medium, and is used in others.

Samprati built thousands of Jain Temples in India, many of which are still in use, such as the Jain temples at Viramgam and Palitana ( Gujarat ), Agar Malwa ( Ujjain ).

B. S. Haldane ), R. S. Lillie, W. E. Agar, and Ludwig von Bertalanffy are other early twentieth century organicists.

Although their daring plan appears to have succeeded, Pierce, Agar and Burgess are ultimately apprehended after Agar's mistress, who has been arrested for robbing a drunk, becomes a police informant to escape imprisonment, and Agar confesses after being threatened by the police with transportation to Australia.

The character names are mixed up in the novel, for example, the main protagonist William Pierce is changed to Edward Pierce, and Edward Agar to Robert Agar.

It is said that Samprati built thousands of Jain Temples in India, many of which are still in use, such as the Jain temples at Viramgam and Palitana ( Gujarat ), Agar Malwa ( Ujjain ).