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The observation that a wide variety of bacteria make and store lipophilic inclusion bodies has been known for sixty-five years. That these polyester storage granules were made up of a vast array of polybetahydroxalkanoates that are biosynthetic, biocompatible, and biodegradable thermoplastics of great potential industrial interest is a concept that has burst upon us only in the last several years.
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Fuller, R.C. (1990). Chairman’s Introductory Remarks Bacterial Polyesters: Past, Present and Future. In: Dawes, E.A. (eds) Novel Biodegradable Microbial Polymers. NATO ASI Series, vol 186. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2129-0_2
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