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Enhanced production of verbenol, a highly valued food flavourant, by an intergeneric fusant strain of Aspergillus niger and Penicillium digitatum
Author(s) -
Rao Smitha C. V.,
Rao Rati,
Agrawal Renu
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
biotechnology and applied biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.468
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1470-8744
pISSN - 0885-4513
DOI - 10.1042/ba20020054
Subject(s) - aspergillus niger , penicillium digitatum , penicillium italicum , strain (injury) , penicillium , biomass (ecology) , food science , chemistry , botany , aspergillus , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , postharvest , agronomy , anatomy
An intergeneric hybrid, obtained from Aspergillus niger and Penicillium digitatum , biotransformed (−)‐ cis ‐ α ‐pinene (5 mg/25 ml) into (−)‐ cis ‐verbenol (60%; 1.08 mg/g of biomass) in 6 h compared with 0.18 mg/g of biomass for verbenol (10–15%; 0.18–0.27 mg/g of biomass) in the initial parent cultures.