Table 1.

Various ligninolytic bacterial strains isolated from lignocellulosic waste containing sites.

Bacterial Strain	Source of isolation	Lignocellulose substrates supporting Growth	Relevant characteristics	Growth conditions	References
Psudomonas sp.	Soil	Effluents	Enhanced degradation of benzene and p-xylene in the presence of toluene	aerobic	Alvarez and Vogel (1991)
Aneurinibacillusaneurinilyticus (AY856831)	Pulp paper mill effluent	Kraft lignin	Decolorize kraft lignin, produce low-molecular-weight compounds	Facultative anaerobe/microaerophilic	Chandra et al. (2007); Raj et al. (2007a)
Azotobacter	Soil		Decolorize and solubilize lignin	Aerobic	Morii et al. (1995)
Bacillus cereus	Pulp paper mill effluent	Phenol (with glucose)	Degrade phenol and pentacholorophenol pollutants	Aerobic	Singh et al. (2009)
Bacillus megaterium	Soil		Decolorize and solubilize lignin		Morii et al. (1995)
Bacillus sp. (AY952465)	Pulp and paper sludge	Kraft lignin	Decolorize kraft lignin, produce low-molecular-weight compounds	Facultative anaerobe, 10 % NaCl	Chandra et al. (2007); Raj et al. (2007a)
Citrobacterfreundii	Pulp paper mill effluent	10 % Black liquor	Decolorize lignin	Microaerophilic	Chandra and Abhishek (2011)
Citrobacter sp.	Rayon grade pulp black liquor	10 % Black liquor		Requires oxygen	Chandra et al. (2011)
Enterobacter	Soil	Lignin model compounds	Oxidative ligninolytic enzymes	Requires ABTS	Yadav et al. (2014)
Escherichia coli	Soil	Lignin model compounds	Oxidative ligninolytic enzymes	Requires ABTS	Yadav et al. (2014)
Klebsiella pneumonia	Rayon grade pulp black liquor	10 % Black liquor		Requires oxygen	Chandra et al. (2011)
Paenibacillus sp. (AY952466)	Pulp and paper sludge	Kraft lignin, phenol (with glucose)	Decolorize kraft lignin produce low-molecular-weight compounds	Facultative anaerobe, 3 % NaCl	Chandra et al. (2007); Raj et al. (2007a)
Pantoea sp.	Pulp paper mill effluent		Decolorize, reduce COD and BOD,degrade lignin and chlorophenol, ligninolytic enzymes	Aerobic, pH 7	Chandra et al. (2012)
Pseudochrobactrum glaciale	Pulp paper mill effluent		Decolorize, reduce COD and BOD, degrade lignin and chlorophenol, ligninolytic enzymes	Aerobic, pH 9	Chandra et al. (2012)
Pseudomonas putida	Pulp paper mill effluent	Effluent	Remove color, phenolics, and sulfide	Aerobic	Chandra et al. (2001)
Serratia marcescens	Soil; rayon grade pulp black Liquor	10 % Black liquor	Decolorize and solubilize lignin	Requires oxygen	Morri et al. (1995); Chandra et al. (2011)