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Bacterial strains identified as Klebsiella pneumonia and Corynebacterium sp. degraded in few hours a great part of pure tara (Caesalpinia spinosa) tannin or crude water extract of tara pods powder. Large amounts of gallic acid were recovered during some experiments reaching 55 % of the theoretical yield in the best case. The feasibility of gallic acid production by a biotechnological process is discussed.
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Deschamps, A.M., Lebeault, JM. Production of gallic acid from tara tannin by bacterial strains. Biotechnol Lett 6, 237–242 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00140043
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