Protease-, Pectinase- and Amylase- Producing Bacteria from a Kenyan Soda Lake

Table 3: Colony morphological characteristics of the soda lake bacterial isolates.

Isolate	Pigment	Shape, height, texture and margin
LBW 2719^a	White, opaque and dull	Circular, raised, rough and dry, entire
LBW 226^a	White, opaque and dull	Circular, raised, rough and dry, entire
LBW 318^a	White, opaque and dull	Circular, raised, rough and dry, entire
LBS 77^a	White, opaque and dull	Circular, raised, rough and dry, entire
LBK 261	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 4512	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 327	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 434	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 7526a	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 39	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 7526b	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 328	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBS 16	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 625	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 446	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 5117	White, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 313	Yellow, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire
LBW 317	Yellow, transluscent and glistening	Circular, flat, smooth, entire

Key: ^a Grew into the agar and gradually became irregular and undulate in their later stages of growth.