Screening for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)-producing bacterial strains and comparison of PHA production from various inexpensive carbon sources
Screening for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)-producing bacterial strains and comparison of PHA production from various inexpensive carbon sources
Waqas Chaudhry,N. Jamil,2 Authors,S. Hasnain
2011 · DOI: 10.1007/s13213-010-0181-6
Annals of Microbiology · 118 Citations
TLDR
A total of 20 different strains were isolated, purified and screened for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production, finding that corn oil can serve as a carbon source for bacterial growth, allowing cells to accumulate PHA up to 35.63 %.