Table 5.

Comparison of xylanase production by different Bacillus sp.

Organism	Carbon source	Xylanase activity (IU/ml)	References
Bacillus sp. AG20	Wheat bran	3.5	Azeri et al. (2010)
B. circulans	Xylan	400	Ratto et al. (1992)
B. circulans D1	Xylan	1,901	Bocchini et al. (2002)
B. licheniformis	Wheat bran	756	Archana and Satyanarayana (1998)
B. pumilus B20	Wheat bran	313	Geetha and Gunasekaran (2010)
B. pumilus SV34S	Wheat bran	3,454	Mittal et al. (2012)
B. pumilus SV-85S	Wheat bran	2,995 ± 200	Nagar et al. (2012)
B. pumilus SV-205	Wheat bran	7,382 ± 1,200	Nagar et al. (2010)
B. subtilis	Oat spelt xylan	128	Annamalai et al. (2009)
Bacillus sp. V1-4	Birchwood xylan	49	Yang et al. (1995)
B. subtilis	Oat spelt xylan	18	Sa-Pereira et al. (2002)
B. subtilis ASH	Wheat bran	410	Sanghi et al. (2009)
B. pumilus VLK-1	Wheat bran	7,295	Present study