“…PHAs are a class of natural polyesters that can be accumulated by various microorganisms when there is an excess of available carbon and a limited supply of at least one nutrient essential to bacterial cell growth (Borges et al, 2004;Saharan et al, 2014;Urtuvia et al, 2014). Bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which belongs to ribosomal RNA homology group I, are able to synthesize PHA using a variety of carbon sources, including glucose, fructose and sucrose (Diniz et al, 2004;Santhanam & Sasidharan, 2010;Davis et al, 2013), n-octane and octanoate (Smet et al, 1983;Durner et al, 2000), and fatty acids (Du & Yu, 2002;Allen et al, 2010), among others.…”