In the present study we used H. palleronii for degradation of
VFA present in SW and subsequent conversion of their metabolites
into PHA. This is an exceptional bacteria for studying the
biosynthesis of PHA, because this bacterium has the ability to
grow at higher concentration of VFA, and has the ability to
degrade different types of organic pollutants present in waste
streams, i.e., 4-aminobenzenesulfonic acid (Noisommit-Rizzi
et al., 1996), 2,4-dinitrotoluene (Nishino et al., 2000), and
naphthalene (Xin et al., 2010).