Producing microbial polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolyesters in a sustainable manner

New Biotechnology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2017, Pages 24-38

  Koller, Martin ^a,b   Maršálek, Lukáš ^c   de Sousa Dias, Miguel Miranda ^d   Braunegg, Gerhart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b ARENA Association for resource efficient and sustainable technologies   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Biopolyesters; Feedstocks; Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA); Production strains; Sustainability; Upstream processing

Indexed keywords

FEEDSTOCKS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SUPPLY CHAINS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIO-POLYESTERS; DOWNSTREAM-PROCESSING; ENGINEERING ASPECTS; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; PRODUCTION STRAIN; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION;

LIFE CYCLE;

BIOFUEL; BIOPOLYMER; LIGNOCELLULOSE; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE; POLYESTER; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; INDUSTRIAL WASTE;

AUTOTROPHY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DAIRY INDUSTRY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MIXED CELL CULTURE; MIXOTROPHY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUGAR INDUSTRY; WHEY; ANIMAL; BIOREACTOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GREEN CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOFUELS; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; WHEY;

EID: 84976603217     PISSN: 18716784     EISSN: 18764347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2016.05.001     Document Type: Review

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