Bioplastics from light and air - The concept of a synthetic co-culture

Hannes Löwe; Andreas Kremling; Katharina Pflüger-Grau

doi:10.1007/s12268-017-0802-8

Bioplastics from light and air - The concept of a synthetic co-culture

Translated title of the contribution: Bioplastics from light and air - The concept of a synthetic co-culture

Hannes Löwe, Andreas Kremling, Katharina Pflüger-Grau

Associate Professorship of Systems biotechnology

Technical University of Munich

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Some of the most challenging tasks of our times are to combat global warming, to avoid further contamination of the environment with plastics, and to provide enough food for an increasing world population. A promising contribution to these overwhelming problems can be made by modern biotechnology. Here, we present the concept of a modular co-culture in which the feedstock is produced from CO2 and light by a cyanobacterium and converted directly to bioplastic (PHA) by a heterotrophic strain.

Translated title of the contribution	Bioplastics from light and air - The concept of a synthetic co-culture
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	338-340
Number of pages	3
Journal	BioSpektrum
Volume	23
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-017-0802-8
State	Published - May 2017

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