run something into something. 1. to guide or route something, such as a wire or a pipe, into something or a place. The worker ran the circuit into each room. He ran in the circuit as specified. 2. to guide something into something; to drive or steer something into something else.
A change of color to a blue-black or purple color suggests that starch is present. If there is no change in color, this suggests no starch is detectable. Note the change of the iodine to black on the potato (right) but not the apple (left). (10% Tincture of iodine.) Potato contains starch, but apple does not.
A medium containing starch is used. After inoculation and overnight incubation, iodine reagent is added to detect the presence of starch. Iodine reagent complexes with starch to form a blue-black color in the culture medium. Clear halos surrounding colonies is indicative of their ability to digest the starch in the medium due to the presence of alpha-amylase. What medium is used? The medium used is starch agar. The medium is a nutrient agar to which starch is added. How is the test performed? An inoculum from a pure culture is streaked on a sterile plate of starch agar The inoculated plate is incubated at 35-37 C for 24 hours. Iodine reagent is then added to flood the growth.