Abstract
Pathogenic fungi have been selected over the years as sources of cell-wall-degrading enzymes and used for production of protoplasts from a variety of land plants (Cocking, 1972; Ruesink & Thimann, 1965; Albersheim & Anderson-Prouty, 1975; Fitter & Krikorian, 1984). Cellulases, chitinases and pectinases, extracted from fungi such as Trichoderma, Aspergillus, Rhizopus and Penicillium are commercially available. The composition of cell walls varies greatly among plants and even within different tissues of the same plant. As a result, many plant tissues cannot be dissociated by the commercially available enzymes (Thomas & Davey, 1975; Fitter & Krikorian, 1984).
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Polne-Fuller, M., Gibor, A. (1987). Microorganisms as digestors of seaweed cell walls. In: Ragan, M.A., Bird, C.J. (eds) Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4057-4_60
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