The production of polyhydroxyalkanoate from anaerobically treated palm oil mill effluent by Rhodobacter sphaeroides

• Main Authors: Hassan, Mohd Ali, Shirai, Yoshihito, Kusubayashi, Noriko, Abdul Karim, Mohamed Ismail, Nakanishi, Kazuhiro, Hashimoto, Kenji
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 1997
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51098/1/51098.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51098/7/S0922338X97830073.htm; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51098/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0922338X97830073

Palm oil mill effluent (POME) was first subjected to anaerobic treatment for production of organic acids, particularly acetic and propionic acids, and later used for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) by a photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodobacter sphaeroides (IFO 12203). However, no PHA was p...