Table 1 Selection of published articles dealing with PHA-producing bacteria from the marine environment
Source | Locations | Biopolymer | Isolates (References) |
|---|---|---|---|
Marine sediment | Pakistan | mcl-PHA | Pseudomonas sp. CMG607w (Jamil et al. 2007) |
Marine sediment | PHB | Vibrio spp. (Chien et al. 2007) | |
Decaying sea marsh grass | USA | PHA | Saccharophagus degradans ATCC42961 (González-García et al. 2008) |
Kopara mats | French Polynesia | mcl-PHA | Pseudomonas guezennei sp. nov. (Simon-Colin et al. 2008a) P. raguenesii sp. nov. (Simon-Colin et al. 2009) P. guezennei biovar (Simon-Colin et al. 2008c) |
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimps | Mid-Atlantic Ridge | PHA | Halomonas profundus sp. nov. (Simon-Colin et al. 2008b) |
Soil, marine mangrove sediments, back and sea water | India | PHB | Vibrio sp. MK4 (Arun et al. 2009) |
Sea water | India | PHB | H. hydrothermalis SM-P-3M (Shrivastav et al. 2010b) |
Sea water | India | PHA | Spirulina subsalsa (Shrivastav et al. 2010a) |
Seawater | Japan | PHA | Vibrio sp. KN01 (Numata and Doi 2012) |
Contamination in stock culture on marine agar plate | PHA | Bacillus sp. (Sawant et al. 2014) |