“…The isolate was maintained on slant tubes containing yeast extract 1%, glucose 1% and agar 2% at 4°C. B. coagulans ATCC8038 was a gift from Dr. Paul A. Hartman (Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA) [3] and was used as reference throughout the present work. Growth of the isolate was carried out on petri dishes filled with 15 ml of YNBXA medium consisting of 0.6% yeast nitrogen base (Difco), 2.5% xylan (Sigma Chemical Co.) and 2% agar (Difco).…”