Novel bacterial enzymes for plant biomass degradation discovered by meta - omics approach
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De novo prediction of the genomic components and capabilities for microbial plant biomass degradation from (meta-)genomes
BACKGROUND Understanding the biological mechanisms used by microorganisms for plant biomass degradation is of considerable biotechnological interest. Despite of the growing number of sequenced (meta)genomes of plant biomass-degrading microbes, there is currently no technique for the systematic determination of the genomic components of this process from these data. RESULTS We describe a compu...
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