Abstract

A novel bioreactor has been designed to produce secondary metabolites from immobilised plant cell cultures (Mavituna et al, 1987). We have used the production of capsaicin, the hot chilli flavour, by Capsicum frutescens as a model system. This is a particularly suitable system for an immobilised cell process since capsaicin is excreted into the liquid medium.

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