Polyhydroxyalkanoate production from anaerobically treated palm oil mill effluent by new bacterial strain Comamonas sp. EB172

• Main Authors: Zakaria, Mohd Rafein, Tabatabaei, Meisam, Mohamad Ghazali, Farinazleen, Abd Aziz, Suraini, Shirai, Yoshihito, Hassan, Mohd Ali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12393/1/12393.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12393/; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11274-009-0232-y

A new isolate designated as strain EB172 was isolated from a digester treating palm oil mill effluent and was investigated by polyphasic taxonomic approach. The cells were rod-shaped, Gram-negative, non-pigmented, non-spore-forming and non-fermentative. Phylogenetic analysis using the 16S rRNA gene...