This bacterial strain demonstrates that non-degradable plastics like polyethylene can be degraded under appropriate conditions.

The outer core oligosaccharide chain varies depending on the bacterial strain.

Solid growth media such as agar plates are used to isolate pure cultures of a bacterial strain.

Infected plants show typical symptoms, such as leaf deformation, witches broom and leaf gall, which development depends on the plant's cultivar, plant's age, and the bacterial strain.

The bound, selected phages can be multiplied by reinfecting a susceptible bacterial strain, thus allowing them to retrieve the peptides encoded in them for further study.