cellulolyticadj.

1940 M. S. Kantrowitz et al. Permanence & Durability of Paper 18 A detailed report is given on a quantitative study of the cellulolytic action of Cladosporium herbarum.

1950 Bacteriol. Rev. 14 43 It [sc. carbon dioxide] is produced by most of the pure cultures of rumen cellulolytic bacteria.

1965 Nature 15 May 714/1 Pectolytic and cellulolytic enzymes of phytopathogenic fungi are generally assumed to play an important part in the infection process in many plant diseases.

1993 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Aug. 72/1 In this alkaline forestomach, microbes known as cellulolytic bacteria do what digestive enzymes of the monkeys cannot do: degrade fiber.

2004 R. C. Kuhad et al. in A. Varma et al. Plant Surface Microbiol. v. 86 A significant increase in nitrogenase activity associated with the breakdown of straw after inoculation with..cellulolytic fungi and bacteria.