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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2012
Applicant:
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Inventors:
Richard D Ashby, Glenside, PA (US);
Daniel K. Y. Solaiman, Dresher, PA (US);
Gary D Strahan, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/62 (2006.01); C08G 63/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/625 (2013.01);
Abstract
This invention relates to the production of short-chain polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymers which include C3 to C5 3-hydroxyacyl monomers. The process includes culturing a native microorganism capable of synthesizing polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymers using as a carbon source an amount of glycerol, levulinic acid and mixtures thereof that drives the microbial synthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymers.