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n. - Soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites.

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  • Phanerochaete chrysosporium Delignified cellulose for use as feed, fibre, or further conversions Under research Thermoactinomyces sp. and other thermophilic actinomyces...
  • The thermophilic, cellulolytic, and starch-utilizing actinomyces, such as Thermoactinomyces sp., may provide an opportunity to produce single-cell protein for feed...
  • The actinomyces gain access to the bone through a carious tooth or through the gum.
  • Oral cavity contains millions of anaerobic bacteria like fusobacterium and actinomyces which acts on the protein of food materials and putrefies them.
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