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[-] wieson@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Short: PDC and beta-carotin

Long: the bacteria can digest lignin into core ingredients used for plastics and nylon: PDC and ccMA. They had another strand that could produce some form of carotinoid and modified it to produce more valuable carotinoids (like beta-carotin used as a food supplement). Then they combined both attributes into one bacteria strand.

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