ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 3.2//en"> <html> <head> <title>APJMBB Volume 16 Number 1, Jan 2008</title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Arachnophilia 4.0"> <meta name="FORMATTER" content="Arachnophilia 4.0"> </head> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> .head { font-family: Arial narrow, Times new roman, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-style: italic;} .title { font-family: Times new roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bold;} .text { font-family: Times new roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;} .affil { font-family: Times new roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-style: italic;} .sechead { font-family: Times new roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bold;} A {text-decoration:none} A:hover {color:#ff8040;} .text3 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000;} .text4 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #0000ff;} .text2 { font-family: Times new roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000;} </STYLE> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000"> <img src="../images/apjlogos.gif" width="125" height="87" alt=""><br><hr width=90% align=left> <span class=text3><a href="161cont.htm">[ Contents ]</a> [ <a href="../../apjhome.htm">APJMBB home</a> ]</span><hr width=90% align=left> <p class=head>As. Pac. J. Mol. Biol. &amp; Biotech., Jan 2008 Vol. 16, 1-10</p> <table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td width=100% valign=top><span class=title>MINIREVIEW<BR><BR>Transgenic Plants Producing Polyhydroxyalkanoates</span><br> <br> <span class=text>Abdul Masani Mat Yunus<sup>1</sup>, Ghulam Kadir Ahmad Parveez<sup>1</sup> and Chai-Ling Ho<sup>2</sup> </span><br> <br> <span class=affil><sup>1</sup>Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre (ABBC), Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), P.O. Box 10620, 50720 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br> <sup>2</sup>Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. </span> <p class=text2>*Author for Correspondence.<br> Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre, <br>Malaysian Palm Oil Board, P.O. Box 10620, <br>50720 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br> Tel: 603-89255846; Fax: 603-8259446; <br>Email: masani@mpob.gov.my </p> <p class=text align=justify><span class=sechead>Abstract.</span><br> Currently, the polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) copolymer, polyhydroxy-co-valerate (PHBV) is being produced commercially using a two-stage glucose / propionate fed batch fermentation process using <i>Ralstonia eutropha</i>. The economics of the manufacturing process are still a major barrier to the widespread use of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and intensive efforts are being made to reduce the cost of production by means of bioprocess design and metabolic engineering of production strains. However, despite these improvements, the production costs are still high compared to petroleum-derived commodity plastics. An alternative strategy for lowering production costs that has been proposed is to develop transgenic plants that produce PHAs. This strategy is considerably cheaper because the PHAs production from plants does not require expensive fermentation equipment and processing facilities. </p> <a href="161a.pdf" class=text4>[Get pdf]</a> </td></tr></table> <br> <br> <br> <br> </body> </html>