Isolation and Characterization of a Strain of Bacillus megaterium That Degrades Poly(vinyl alcohol).
A poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)-degrading mixed culture that consisted of sereval microorganisms was obtained from activated sludge from a textile factory. From the culture, a component bacterial strain, BX1, that degraded PVA was isolated, and was identified as Bacillus megaterium. This strain could degrade PVA only in the cocultivation with a bacterial strain, PN19, that was isolated from the same mixed culture.
a Osaka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center , Syakudo 442, Habikino-shi, Osaka 583 , Japan.
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a Osaka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center , Syakudo 442, Habikino-shi, Osaka 583 , Japan.
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a Osaka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center , Syakudo 442, Habikino-shi, Osaka 583 , Japan.
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a Osaka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center , Syakudo 442, Habikino-shi, Osaka 583 , Japan.|b Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, College of Agriculture , University of Osaka Prefecture , 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai-shi, Osaka 593 , Japan.
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PVA degradation; PVA-degrading Bacillus megaterium