Here are five characteristics of human agriculture that the thick-footed morel also uses to farm the bacteria Pseudomonas putida. In human agriculture, improving a crop's growth conditions is ...

Led by Dr Neil Dixon, the team utilised the bacterium Pseudomonas putida, renowned for its resilience and adaptability, to process complex waste streams into bioplastics and even therapeutic proteins.

The study, "Production and Characterization of Biopolymer from Food Waste Using Pseudomonas putida," was recently published in ACS ES&T Engineering. "Using food waste as food for bacteria which ...