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Divergent microbial communities in groundwater and overlying soils exhibit functional redundancy for plant-polysaccharide degradation

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Enzyme activities in groundwater and soil samples.

Activities on α-glucoside, β-cellobioside and β-xyloside measured in a fluorometric assay using MUF substrate analogues for (A) groundwater samples from well H41 of the Hainich CZE, and (B) soil samples from the nearby beech forest. (C) For comparability, enzyme activities were normalized to bacterial 16S ribosomal gene copy numbers determined by qPCR. Values represent averages of enzyme activities in groundwater samples (blue bars, 3 technical replicates) and in soil samples (brown bars, 3 biological replicates), and error bars depict standard deviations.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212937.g001