Dear colleagues
One year ago I stored my C. violaceum strain (violacein producer) at -80C with glycerol at 15%. In nowadays when I freezed out the vials and did culture the strain, it grew but not expressed violacein pigment. My strain is not ATCC strain, is an environmental isolated which previously was expressing violacein pigment. I will be so much grateful if someone can say me how to recover the violacein expression of C. violaceum after freezing. Thanks.