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- ItemRestrictedDemonstration of the Crabtree effect in Phaffia rhodozyma during continuous and fed-batch cultivation(Springer, 1997) Reynders, M B; Rawlings, D E; Harrison, S T LBy monitoring cell yield and fermentation products during fed-batch and continuous growth, Pfaffia rhodozyma was shown to exhibit the Crabtree effect. In fed-batch culture at feed concentrations of 27 and 55 g glucose/l there was good agreement between the observed biomass formation and that predicted by a mass balance model. At 125 g glucose/l in the feed, biomass formation was less than predicted and fermentation products such as ethanol and acetic acid accumulated in the culture medium. In continuous culture with a feed concentration of 10 g glucose/l, the Crabtree effect became apparent at a dilution rate of 0.1 h -1 . Aerobic fermentation did not occur provided the sugar substrate was maintained at a concentration of less than 0.5 g/l. Although the cell yield coefficient was reduced from 0.5 g/g to 0.16 g/g during aerobic fermentation, the carotenoid content of the cells was unaffected.
- ItemRestrictedStudies on growth, modelling and pigment production by the yeast Phaffia rhodozyma during fed-batch cultivation(Springer, 1996) Reynders, M B; Rawlings, D E; Harrison, S T LAs Phaffia rhodozyma is a Crabtree positive yeast, its cell yield and pigment production are reduced at high sugar concentrations. A method for maintaining low growth medium sugar concentrations is fed-batch culture. Using a mass balance approach and Monod growth kinetics a model is presented which describes the fed-batch culture of Phaffia rhodozyma and enables the calculation of a feed regime to obtain the maximum yield of cells and pigment. Although developed on a glucose medium, the model was also applied successfully to a molasses-based medium.