Nester's Microbiology 8th Edition by Denise Anderson,Sarah Salm,Deborah Allen

Exercise 1

A graduate student is trying to identify the gene coding for an enzyme found in a bacterial species that degrades trinitrotoluene (TNT). The student is frustrated to find that the organism does not produce the enzyme when grown in nutrient broth, making it difficult to collect the mRNA needed to help identify the gene. What could the student do to potentially increase the amount of the desired enzyme?