What is it about?
Plastic due to its light weight and low cost is a first choice for daily use product, which now can be replaced by Bioplastics. The current study demonstrates the screening of a previously reported thermotolerant bacterium strain Bacillus sp. ISTVK1 isolated fromwastewater treatment plant for production of PHA by utilizing pure glycerol as carbon source.
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Why is it important?
Industrialisation and modernisation lead to increase in the lifestyle of the people, and we are bound to use the synthetic products such as plastics. Now, these days plastics are appealing and most of the things around us is made up of plastic.
Perspectives
One of the best alternatives to synthetic plastic is the bio-degradable polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) which has enormous potential to replace the Petro based non-degradable plastic. These polymers have diverse applications, it can be employed either for packaging and coating materials
Dr Manish Kumar
Amity University
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This page is a summary of: Utilization of glycerol by Bacillus sp. ISTVK1 for production and characterization of Polyhydroxyvalerate, Bioresource Technology Reports, June 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.biteb.2018.03.002.
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