Cocoa bean cell culture
AssigneeCornell Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsJohn E. Kinsella, Chee H. Tsai
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Abstract
The invention relates to culturing cocoa bean cells in the presence of a cocoa bean cell culture growth supporting medium for a time and at a temperature sufficient to produce a metabolite, e.g. triglyceride species similar to those normally found in cocoa butter and isolating said metabolite.
Claims4
A method of producing SUS triglycerides which comprises cultivating cocoa bean cells by suspension cell culture in the presence of a cocoa bean cell growth supporting medium for a time and at a temperature sufficient to propagate said cells thereby forming SUS triglyceride metabolites and separating said triglycerides from the cell culture.
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