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Primary Examiner: Monacell, A. Louis
Assistant Examiner: Wiseman, Thomas G.
Attorney: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher

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Title: Production of edible protein substances

Abstract: Process for the production of an edible protein-containing substance which comprises incubating and proliferating, under aerobic conditions, a non-toxic strain of the gensus Fusarium or a variant or mutant thereof, in a culture medium containing essential growth-promoting nutrient substances, of which carbon in the form of assimilable carbohydrate constitutes the limiting substrate in proliferation, and separating the proliferated organism comprising the edible protein-containing substance. Novel strains and variants of Fusarium graminearum are also disclosed.


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Inventors: Solomons, Gerald L. (High Wycombe, EN)
Scammell, Gerald W. (Chinnor, EN)

Application Number: 599026
Filing Date: 1975-07-25
Publication_date: 1976-02-10
Assignee: Ranks Hovis McDougall Limited (London, EN)
Primary Class(es): 426/60 426/48, 435/256.5, 435/804, 435/929
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:
2450055Sep, 1948Nord426/72.
2822319Feb, 1958Monod195/115.
3151038Feb, 1964Gray et al.195/32.

Other Refs: 1,085,994
Oct, 1967UK
Other References: Vinson et al., "The Nutritive Value of Fusaria," Science, Vol. 101, No. 2624, pp. 388-389 (1945).
Chian et al., "Growth of Mixed Cultures on Mixed Substrates," Applied Microbiology, Sept. 1968, pp. 1337-1342.
Imholte et al., J. Pharm. Sci., Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 97-100, (1968).