Patent ID: 6333180
Filing Date: 2001-12-25
Classification: A23L,A24B,C07C,C11B,C12N,C12P

Abstract:
A process for the manufacture of food flavor acceptable jasmonic acid in relatively high yield of from 1-2 grams per liter, containing at least 5% of a ""cis"" isomer having a structure selected from the group consisting of: ##STR98##and a maximum of 95% by weight of at least one of the isomers having a structure selected from the group consisting of: ##STR99##which comprises the steps of (i) cultivation under aerobic conditions of a strain of Diplodia gossypina organism selected from the group consisting of:(a) Diplodia gossypina ATCC 10936;(b) Diplodia gossypina ATCC 20575;(c) Diplodia gossypina NRRL 25011; and(d) Diplodia gossypina ATCC 36037in a nutrient medium containing an assimilable source of carbon and an assimilable source of nitrogen followed by (ii) isolation of the jasmonic acid product from the culture medium.