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Characterization of xylanolytic bacteria present in the bract phyllosphere of the date palm Phoenix dactylifera.
Letters in applied microbiology - 1 Feb 2007
Rivas R, García-Fraile P, Mateos P F, Martínez-Molina E, Velázquez E
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AIMS: Despite the interest of phyllosphere microbiology, no studies have addressed the bacteria present in bract phyllosphere, an ecosystem that has special characteristics in palm trees because the dry bracts remain on the plant until pruning and may contain polymer-degrading bacteria involved in plant degradation. Therefore, the aim of this work was to characterize xylanolytic bacteria isolated from palm bract...
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