What is it about?
Lignin is a major component of plant biomass and is recalcitrant to degradation due to its complex and heterogeneous aromatic structure. The biomass-based research mainly focuses on polysaccharides component of biomass and lignin is discarded as waste with very limited usage.
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Why is it important?
Discovering new microbial strains and understanding their enzyme system for lignin degradation are necessary for itsconversion into fuel and chemicals. The Pandoraea sp. ISTKB was previously characterized for lignin degradation and successfully applied for pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production.
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This publication is related to genomics and proteomics analysis of bacteria which can utilise lignin as carbon source of production of Polyhydroxyalkanotes (PHA)
Dr Manish Kumar
Amity University
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This page is a summary of: Genomic and proteomic analysis of lignin degrading and polyhydroxyalkanoate accumulating β-proteobacterium Pandoraea sp. ISTKB, Biotechnology for Biofuels, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-018-1148-2.
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