Process Parameters for Influencing Polyhydroxyalkanoate Producing Bacterial Factories: An Overview

Abstract

The ever increasing potentialities of petroleum plastics with respect to lack of degradation, inability to recycle and the toxic effects of incineration, has urged to design biodegradable polymers, often called Green Plastics. These biodegradable plastics are promiscuous due to their analogous properties and environmental friendliness. Bacterial factories and Plants being their natural sources for production made them a promiscuous solution. Fermentation is the procedural technology used with certain fillers that are known to enhance the chemo-mechanical properties. The process at the industrial level is not well accepted due to the certain lacunas. The review mainly focuses to assimilate a few researches that implicate the best known process parameters for Batch, Fed-batch, Continuous and Two stage modes of fermentation without compromising the downstream processing at commercial level.