''Paraburkholderia sacchari'' is a species of

bacteria Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among ...

in the phylum

Pseudomonadota Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria) is a major phylum of Gram-negative bacteria. The renaming of phyla in 2021 remains controversial among microbiologists, many of whom continue to use the earlier names of long standing in the literature. The ...

. It was isolated in the 1990s from sugarcane crop soil (São Paulo state, Brazil), and later identified as a new bacterial species, originally named as ''Burkholderia sacchari''. ''Paraburkholderia sacchari'' was found to be capable of creating and accumulating

polyhydroxyalkanoates Polyhydroxyalkanoates or PHAs are polyesters produced in nature by numerous microorganisms, including through bacterial fermentation of sugars or lipids. When produced by bacteria they serve as both a source of energy and as a carbon store. More ...

(PHA) by incorporating different monomers. This strain was subject of a number of genetic and bioproccess engineering studies conducted worldwide aiming to establish PHA production from different substrates, especially using agro-industrial byproducts.

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''Burkholderia sacchari'' sp. nov., a polyhydroxyalkanoate-accumulating bacterium isolated from soil of a sugar-cane plantation in Brazil sacchari Bacteria described in 2001 {{Betaproteobacteria-stub