Patent ID: 6972191

Claim:
A method for producing geranylgeraniol and/or farnesol, which comprises culturing geranylgeraniol- and/or farnesol-producing cells belonging to any one of the following genera: Saccharomyces, Saccharomycopsis, Saccharomycodes, Schizosaccharomyces, Wickerhamia, Debaryomyces, Hanseniaspora, Pichia, Kloeckera, Candida, Zygosaccharomyces, Ogataea, Williopsis, Kluyveromyces, Cryptococcus, Bacillus, Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas, Ambrosiozyma, Metschnikowia, Trichosporon, Bullera, Filobasidium, Rhodotorula , and Brevibacterium, or any one of the following species Hansenula polymorpha, Lypomyces starkeyi, Kuraishia capsulata, Komagataella pastoris, Yarrowia lipolytica, Nakazawaea holstii, Torulaspora delbrueckii, Citeromyces matritensis, Waltomyces lipofer, Micrococcus luteus, Exiguobacterium acetylicum, Mucor javanicus, Cystofilobasidium infirmominiatum, Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhons, Fellomyces penicillatus, Holtermannia corniformis, Phaffia rhodozyma, Sporidiobolus samonicolar, Sporobolomyces salmonicolor, Zygoascus hellenicus, Haloferax volcanii, Leucosporidium scottii, Myxozyma lipomycoides, Trichosporiella flavificans , and Alcaligenes faecalis, in a medium with a sugar content of 1-10% in the presence of at least one member selected from the group consisting of a soybean oil, fish oil, almond oil and olive oil at a concentration of about 0.1% or more to produce and accumulate geranylgeraniol and/or farnesol in the cells and/or in the extracellular environment; and then collecting geranylgeraniol and/or farnesol.