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Clostridium phytofermentans sp. nov., a cellulolytic mesophile from forest soil.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Jul 2002
Warnick Thomas A, Methé Barbara A, Leschine Susan B
Abstract excerpt
An obligately anaerobic, mesophilic, cellulolytic bacterium, strain ISDgT, was isolated from forest soil. Cells of this isolate stained Gram-negative, despite possessing a Gram-positive cell-wall ultrastructure, and were motile, straight rods that formed spherical terminal spores that swelled the sporangium. Cellulose, pectin, polygalacturonic acid, starch, xylan, arabinose, cellobiose, fructose, galactose,...
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