Bio-Based Polymers Collaborative Research Team, AIST Kansai Collaboration Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Sei-ichi AIBA
Environmentally Degradable Polymer Research Group, Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, AIST
Biodiesel fuel is favored as a type of carbon neutral energy. To popularize its usage, by-product waste glycerol utilization is a critical problem. We tried to isolate waste glycerol utilizing bacteria, and obtained the alkalo- and halophile bacteria Halomonas sp. KM-1. This strain produced bioplastic poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) in a simple medium and diluted waste glycerol as a sole carbon source.
