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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2000
Wen-Teng Wu, Hsinchu, TW;
Pei-Ming Wang, Kaohsiung, TW;
Ting-Kuo Huang, Chang-He, TW;
Gwo-Fang Yuan, Hsinchu, TW;
Food Industry Research & Development Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
The invention discloses a method for cultivation of filamentous fungi using a suspended nutritionally solid substrate, the method including the steps of: (a) preparing a medium comprising a nutritionally solid substrate; and (b) inoculating an inoculum into the medium comprising the nutritionally solid substrate in a bioreactor to carry out fermentation. The present invention combines the properties of solid-state culture and submerged culture. In addition, the present invention may employ an air-lift bioreactor with a net draft tube and the fed-batch process to elevate the yields of filamentous fungi and metabolites thereof.