“…Fifteen strains with markedly low or high glycosidase activities with regard to one or all of the five synthetic substrates were selected for further characterization in the presence of oak wood extracts: strains 3 , 6 , 8 , 10 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 23 , 25 , 30 , 33 , 35 , C1 , C6 and C8 . In an initial experiment, an extract was prepared from untoasted oak wood and 10 volatile compounds that were shown to be released by bacterial glycosidases (de Revel et al. 2005; Bloem et al.…”