Standard Solutions and Media Used for Isolation of Soil Protists

Protozoa are heterotrophic, nonfilamentous protists which play a major role in food web decomposition as bacterivores. In both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, among all the groups of microbes, they are involved in pivotal processes. Protozoa are conspicuous which may serve as predators and prey in soil ecosystems for other soil microbes. Due to this nature, they may influence the metabolic and development activities of the bacterial communities thereby resulting in increase in plant growth and biomass. Therefore, several researchers have diverted their interest in understanding and identifying the role of protists, and for that, protists need to be isolated and identified. However, for isolation of soil protists, as well as for culturing of isolated protists, several standard solutions and media were used.