chitin stain

[Jack Forster]

>Subject: chitin stain
>From: Eric Wilk Eric.Wilk at tufts.edu 
>Date: 5/1/2003 4:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <3EAF6BE4.2AC6568F at tufts.edu>
>
>Hi!  Is there anything that stains pretty specifically for chitin?
>
>Thanx,
>
>Eric

Hi Eric, I'm not a mycologist/microbiologist but would Fungalase (a proprietary
polysaccharide stain specific for chitin) do the trick?

Info at:  http://www.mobitec.de/products/fluores_tec/fungalase.html

Cheers,

Jack Forster