Redirecting Carbon Flow through Mesophyll and Bundle Sheath Cells of Sugarcane to Produce Poly-3-Hydroxybutyrate

该项目是国家重点项目“建设和改造澳大利亚工业的前沿技术”的一部分。利用创新的植物代谢工程技术与复杂的计算机建模相结合，我们正在产生绿色植物，这些植物生产出可再生、可生物降解的生物塑料，具有各种特性，在许多应用中都是石油衍生产品的合适替代品。在这些研究过程中，我们正在增加我们对重要生物能源作物的植物代谢的基本了解。在甘蔗中生产可再生生物塑料将有助于澳大利亚甘蔗行业的多样化，因为它提供了一种具有重要全球市场的附加值产品。

This project is part of the National Priorities "Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries." Using innovative plant metabolic engineering technologies combined with sophisticated computer modeling we are generating green plants that produce renewable, biodegradable, bioplastics possessing properties such that they are suitable replacements for petroleum-derived products in many applications. During the course of these studies, we are increasing our basic level of understanding of plant metabolism of important bioenergy crops. The production of renewable, bioplastics in sugarcane will help to diversify the Australian sugarcane industry by providing a value-added product with significant world-wide markets.