(Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084，China)
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10.7502/j.issn.1674-3962.2012.02.02
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Biomanufacturing industry includes biofuels, biomaterials and biochemicals, and it is also called “white biotechnology”. Due to recent policy to promote industries independent of petroleum, CO 2 reduction and environmentally friendliness, biomanufacturing develops very fast. Being a family of biopolyesters with biodegradability, biocompatibility and chirality; microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) has become one of the focuses of biomanufacturing today.