Taxol-producing microbes

L airlift bioreactor respectively [130]. The slow growth rate of plant cells leads to a high possibility of contamination during the cell culture, thereby increasing the production cost. Thus, efforts have been made towards alternative hosts, like engineering microbes to produce Taxol. 

Industrial production of drugs like taxol requires reproducible, dependable productivity. If a microbe is the source organism, it can be grown in tank fermentors as needed, producing a virtually ine diaustible supply of a desired natural product [18]. 

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