My isolate shows chitinase activity in chtin-broth media but I am not able to grow it on the same solid medium and see the clear zone. Can't understand the reason
hi, you can incorporate colloidal chitin into nutrient agar and clearing zones will occur around the culture. If not, after you've grown the culture in chitin broth harvest supernatant and inoculate colloidal chitin agar and incubate overnight. You should see clearing zones.
I reduced the agar concentration, at least I can grow isolates on the medium but still no clear zones in different temperatures even after 2 week incubation.
in the case of incubation the sup with colloidal chitin agar, I should try it. Good idea.