“…Shanmugaiah et al (2008) reported that among the 39 chitinolytic bacteria which were isolated from rice rhizosphere, only 11 isolates produced zone of clearance over 0.5 cm on chitin colloidal agar. Chitinase production was reported in different species of Bacillus such as B. amyloliquefaciens (Wang et al, 2002), B. cereus (Huang et al, 2005), B. circulans (Chen et al, 2004), B. licheniformis (Waldeck et al, 2006), B. megaterium (Donderski and Brzezinska, 2005), B. stearothermophilus (Sakai et al, 1994), B. subtilis (Wang et al, 2006), B. thuringiensis sub sp. aizawai (De la Vega et al, 2006), B. thuringiensis sub sp.…”