Lawn

Abedon, Stephen T.

doi:10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Bacteria either embedded in semisolid class="bap-term">environments (e.g., agar-containing media) or spread on the surface of more-solid media and which can serve as Indicator bacteria">indicators (that is, hosts) for phage plaque formation.

by Stephen T. Abedon Ph.D. (abedon.1@osu.edu)

About this entry: Lawn is one of a growing set of phage biology and phage therapy terms defined here. For more phage terms, see Abedon, S.T. (2025). Phage Therapy Annotated Glossary. Preprints.org. 10.20944/preprints202508.0347.v1

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Lawn: Bacteria either embedded in semisolid class="bap-term">environments (e.g., agar-containing media) or spread on the surface of more-solid media and which can serve as Indicator bacteria">indicators (that is, hosts) for phage plaque formation.

Discussion

<p>As noted, lawns consist of bacterial microcolonies rather than representing homogeneous dispersions of bacteria. Plaque formation therefore can be viewed as involving a combination of virion diffusion between microcolonies and phage penetration into as well as exploitation of wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual" target="_blank" class="bap-term">individual bacterial microcolonies. Models of phage plaque formation, by contrast, tend to view lawns instead as consisting of homogeneous dispersions of bacteria, a state that exists, at best, only at the point of initiation of lawn formation.

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Abedon, S.T. (2026). Phage Terms. https://terms.phage.org · 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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