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PHA Production from Cheese Whey and "Scotta": Comparison between a Consortium and a Pure Culture of
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- Coupling of biohydrogen and polyhydroxyalkanoates production processes for next-generation biorefineries: process design, optimization and perspectives.Bioprocess and biosystems engineering · 2026Review
- Valorising Whey: From Environmental Burden to Bio-Based Production of Value-Added Compounds and Food Ingredients.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Study on obtaining bacterial cellulose by Komagataeibacter xylinus in co-culture with lactic acid bacteria in whey.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Circular bioeconomy in dairy production: Ricotta cheese exhausted whey, from a byproduct to bioproducts, a case study.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2025Article
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- Sheep's Second Cheese Whey Edible Coatings with Oregano and Clary Sage Essential Oils Used as Sustainable Packaging Material in Cheese.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Lactic acid production byFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
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- Bio-conversion of organic wastes towards polyhydroxyalkanoates.Biotechnology notes (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- Dynamics of PHA-Accumulating Bacterial Communities Fed with Lipid-Rich Liquid Effluents from Fish-Canning Industries.Polymers · 2022Article
- Microbial Degradation and Value Addition to Food and Agriculture Waste.Current microbiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
It is urgent to expand the market of biodegradable alternatives to oil-derived plastics owing to (i) increasingly limited oil availability/accessibility, and (ii) the dramatic impact of traditional plastics on aquatic life, the food chain, all Earth ecosystems, and ultimately, human health. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are promising biodegradable polymers that can be obtained through microbial fermentation of agro-industrial byproducts, e.g., milk and cheese whey. Here, the PHA-accumulating efficiency of a mixed microbial culture (MMC, derived from activated sludges) grown on dairy byproducts (cheese and scotta whey) was measured. Bioreactor tests featuring temperature and pH control showed that both scotta and pre-treated Toma cheese whey could be used for PHA production by MMC, although scotta cheese whey supported higher PHA yield and productivity. The advantages of open MMCs include their plasticity and versatility to fast changing conditions; furthermore, no growth-medium sterilization is needed prior to fermentation. However, the use of pure cultures of efficient PHA producers may support better metabolic performances. Therefore, PHA-producing strains were isolated from a MMC, leading to the satisfactory identification of two bacterial strains,
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