Turkish Journal of Biology
DOI
10.3906/biy-1205-62
Abstract
This study aims to use sweet sorghum juice (SSJ) to produce an environmentally friendly biopolymer of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) by bacteria isolated from soil. Among 18 isolates, only 3 isolates, coded as S4, S6, and S11, were chosen to produce PHA via batch fermentation compared to 3 strains of Alcaligenes eutrophus, A. latus, and Hydrogenophaga sp., respectively, under controlled conditions at pH 7, 35 °C, and 20 g/L of initial total sugar in the SSJ. The results clearly showed that the isolate S4 can produce maximum PHAs of 1.74 g/L with 57.62% dry cell weight and yield maximum hourly productivity at 0.097 g/L. S4 was further identified by full-length 16S rDNA gene sequence homology, and the findings showed that it was closely related to Bacillus aryabhattai (99.70% similarity). Interestingly, there has been as of yet no report on the use of this strain to produce an added-value biopolymer of PHA.
Keywords
Biopolymer, polyhydroxyalkanoates, sweet sorghum juice, fermentation, Bacillus aryabhattai
First Page
259
Last Page
264
Recommended Citation
TANAMOOL, VARAVUT; IMAI, TSUYOSHI; DANVIRUTAI, PAIBOON; and KAEWKANNETRA, PAKAWADEE
(2013)
"Biopolymer generation from sweet sorghum juice: screening, isolation, identification, and fermentative polyhydroxyalkanoate production by Bacillus aryabhattai,"
Turkish Journal of Biology: Vol. 37:
No.
3, Article 2.
https://doi.org/10.3906/biy-1205-62
Available at:
https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/biology/vol37/iss3/2
