Substrate for β - Galactosidase which produces a rich blue color that can easily be detected visually over background. Substrate of choice for blue/white selection of recombinant bacterial colonies with the lac + genotype. dissolve in dimethylformamide (AB00450) or DMSO (AB00435) at 20mg/ml X-GAL (sizes 100mg, 250mg, 500mg, 1g) is supplied with a vial of freshly distilled DMF to ensure optimum color development store at -20°C