Objective
Bacterial genes encoding enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of
poly-3-hydroxy-alkanoates (PHAs) will be isolated, characterised and used for the
construction of plant transformation vectors which will include the appropriate
tissue and stage-specific promoters and targeting sequences.
Economically-important crops will be transformed with the aim of accumulating
PHAs in their storage tissues. Novel methods will be developed for both in situ and
in vivo identification of PHAs from recombinant organisms and for their efficient
isolation and purification.
When compared with the production of conventional plastics derived from mineral
oil or PHAs via production in bacteria, this approach has a number of advantages :
not only are the products biodegradable but they are also derived from renewable
resources with low inputs which reduces their cost. PHAs have potential for
numerous industrial applications by replacing current mineral
oil-based-non-biodegradable plastics. In addition, production of PHAs in plants
provides 'green' speciality chemicals with high added value and the opportunity to
bring agricultural land under a novel, non-food industrial use.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology bacteriology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- social sciences economics and business economics sustainable economy
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology biomaterials bioplastics polyhydroxyalkanoates
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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Coordinator
6708 PD WAGENINGEN
Netherlands
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