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Biotechnological Approaches for Enhancing Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) Production: Current and Future Perspectives

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The benefits of biotechnology are not limited to genetic engineering, but it also displays its great impact on industrial uses of crops (e.g., biodegradable plastics). Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) make a diverse class of bio-based and biodegradable polymers naturally synthesized by numerous microorganisms. However, several C3 and C4 plants have also been genetically engineered to produce PHAs. The highest production yield of PHAs was obtained with a well-known C3 plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, upto 40% of the dry weight of the leaf. This review summarizes all biotechnological mechanisms that have been adopted with the goal of increasing PHAs production in bacteria and plant species alike. Moreover, the possibility of using some methods that have not been applied in bioplastic science are discussed with special attention to plants. These include producing PHAs in transgenic hairy roots and cell suspension cultures, making transformed bacteria and plants via transposons, constructing an engineered metabolon, and overexpressing of phaP and the ABC operon concurrently. Taken together, that biotechnology will be highly beneficial for reducing plastic pollution through the implementation of biotechnological strategies is taken for granted.

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Aghaali, Z., Naghavi, M.R. Biotechnological Approaches for Enhancing Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) Production: Current and Future Perspectives. Curr Microbiol 80, 345 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-023-03452-4

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