Hemicellulose degradation

Many aerobic & anaerobic microbes of the soil take hemicelluloses for growth & cell synthesis. Examples of microbes are:-

1) Bacteria

  • Bacillus spp.
  • Cytophaga
  • Pseudomonas
  • Erwinia

 

2) Fungi

  • Alternaria
  • Aspergillus
  • Chaetonium
  • Glomerella
  • Penicillium
  • Trichoderma
  • Humicola
  • Conninghmella