What We Grow
We go the extra mile and grow organisms in a different way for our value chain partners. We grow plants in bioreactors without leaves. This allows us to take the solid out of solid-state fermentation to grow fungi that is free of contamination and grow bacteria at impressive productivity.
Bacteria
Bacteria have been industrially used for quite some time (e.coli, bacillus). However when it comes to species beyond E.coli and Bacillus fermentation expertise is less developed. Bacteria have a strong use case as probiotics or as bio-stimulants in agriculture. We specialize in the production and stabilization of gram-negative bacteria which are especially challenging. Bacteria can have many beneficial effects in the agri/feed and food market. Our technologies will make sure that you are surprised by what can be accomplished in a bioreactor.
Read our Rhizobia case study
Fungi
Especially differentiated fungi are quite a challenge to grow. Besides the industrial work-horses of Penicillium, Trichoderma, Aspergillum the remaining 2,8 Mio filamentous fungi are largely grown (if at all) using solid state fermentation which comes with a series of limitations. Fungal spores have numerous applications as e.g. bio-control agents to replace or to supplement agrochemicals.
Read more about MycoProScale Project
Hairy roots
Plants, when transformed with agro-bacterium, can be grown as hairy roots to produce small bio-active molecules. Instead of performing photosynthesis, the carbon source (sugar) is sourced from the media. Hairy roots are, in fact, able to produce a variety of secondary plant metabolites – a feature that has positioned hairy root platforms as quite of a niche biotech tool to produce complex molecules that are otherwise sourced naturally. In contrast to sourcing these compounds naturally, hairy roots production offers a stable supply while minimizing the ecological impact. To date, we have demonstrated our manufacturing technology up to the m3 scale – allowing us to produce secondary plant metabolites (complex chemical molecules) non-GMO in a controlled bio-process.
Our hairy roots technology is also being applied in the EU-funded Horizon 2020 research project InnCoCells – developing safe and sustainable plant derived cosmetic ingredients with scientifically proven effects. Read more about InnCoCells Project
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