Filamentous fungal biomats, methods of their production and methods of their use
AssigneeThe Fynder Group, Inc.
InventorsMark A. KOZUBAL, Richard E. MACUR, Yuval C. AVNIEL
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Abstract
A novel method of growing fungi is disclosed which uses an engineered artificial media and produces high density filamentous fungi biomats that can be harvested with a minimum of processing and from which fungal products such as antibiotics, proteins, and lipids can be isolated, the method resulting in lowered fungus cultivation costs for energy usage, oxygenation, water usage and waste stream production.
Claims20
A method of producing a filamentous fungi biomat comprising
- (a) inoculating an effective amount of planktonic cells of at least one filamentous fungi into an artificial growth media;
- (b) incubating the inoculated growth media in an undisturbed state for a period of time;
- (c) producing a filamentous fungi biomat;
- and
- (d) optionally harvesting the filamentous fungi biomat.
A method of producing a filamentous fungi biomat comprising
- (a) inoculating into an artificial growth media 7.5% (volume:
- volume) of planktonic cells of at least one filamentous fungi;
- (b) incubating the inoculated growth media in an undisturbed state for a period of time;
- (c) producing a filamentous fungi biomat;
- and
- (d) optionally harvesting the filamentous fungi biomat.
A filamentous fungi biomat comprising at least one cell layer having a biomat cell density of at least 25 g/L (dry wt/L media).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.