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by drycobbler 1071 days ago
Bacteria famously can’t break down cellulose—wet or dry—, a structure made of glucose monomers. It took fungus hundreds of millions of years of evolution to develop the ability to break down cellulose.
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> Bacteria famously can’t

See firmicutes [1] and bacteroidetes: cellulomonas, thermobifida, clostridium. Bacteria also experienced those hundreds of millions of years. In fact, there's some cellulose melting bacteria in your gut right now! ;)

But, you are right that it's not just bacteria [2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4143619

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277587

I think you're thinking of lignin, not cellulose.