The phrase "a minimal medium" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing art, communication, or technology where simplicity or minimalism is emphasized.
Example: "The artist chose a minimal medium to convey her message, focusing on the essence of the subject without unnecessary embellishments."
Alternatives: "a simple medium" or "a basic medium".
A minimal medium (2 mM CaCl2) has been used to avoid any interference from nutrients that may act synergistically with humic matter on plant growth and metabolism.
A shake flask preculture (150 mL) was started from a minimal medium working cell bank (8.5 mL) with a glucose concentration of 5 gL−1.
The production medium of secondary metabolites is a minimal medium supplemented with 1% w/v glucose sterile with a filtered 0.2 µm syringe (Jamil et al. 2007).
The resulted transformants were found to be capable of growing and producing ethanol on a minimal medium at 48 °C supplemented with birchwood xylan as a sole carbon source.
To this end, an enrichment culture was carried out in a minimal medium with different lignin-related aromatic substrates (ferulate, guaiacol and lignin-enriched pulping stream form softwood) as the sole source of carbon and energy.
Except where otherwise stated below, the cultures were grown in a minimal medium earlier described by Mishra et al. (1984) (pH 5); they contained 91% initial moisture (vw-1) and were maintained at 25°C.
In the present study a novel cysteine-rich antifungal protein (Neosartorya fischeri antifungal protein 2, NFAP2) with high anti-yeast activity was isolated and identified from the supernatant of N. fischeri NRRL 181 cultivated in a minimal medium.
Two glass columns were packed with soil obtained from a trichloroethene-contaminated site at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and were fed a minimal medium spiked with PCE (7 μM) for 391 days.
When considering a minimal medium, we predict biosensor designs for 43 chemicals, and when considering a rich medium, we predict additional biosensor designs for 10 chemicals (Figure 3).
At least 107 spores of the ΔchpABCDEH strain [5] were plated on a minimal medium agar plate containing mannitol as the carbon source [36].
Experimentally, P. freudenreichii is able to grow, under anaerobic conditions, in a minimal medium containing a carbon source, ammonium as the sole nitrogen source, minerals, and two to four vitamins.
