Abstract
Monitoring the diversity of polyhydroxybutyrate producing bacterial isolates of 15 novel agroindustrial wastes revealed that the
aquaculture industrial site seemed to harbour with a maximum of 6 positive colonies. About 67 % of the PHB producing isolates were
of Bacillus Sp., 25 % Acinetobacter and only 8 % were of Enterobacter. However, Acinetobacter CN1 an isolate of cashew nut
industry has been identified as a potential (8.4 g / L media) PHB producing strain. However, when the carbon source was substituted
with one of the cheapest sources, viz sago waste (2 %) , Acinetobacter CN1 appeared to accumulate 8.5 g PHB granules / L .
