“…Duarte, Pellegrino, Portugal, Ponezi, and Franco (2000) reported high activity for four strains of B. pumilus, which demonstrated xylanolytic activity of 328, 131, 90 and 167 U mL -1 , respectively. In another study, Bacillus subtilis BE-91 (Liu et al, 2011) was shown to yield 408 U mL -1 , while Streptomyces species (Thomas, Sindhu, & Pandey, 2013b) yielded approximately 200 U mL -1 of xylanase. Since the isolate TC-DT13 was the best xylanase producer in the present screen, it was chosen for further study.…”