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Vanilla flavour: production by conventional and biotechnological routes

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JSFA-04-2000
 
Title Vanilla flavour: production by conventional and
biotechnological routes
 
Creator Ramachandra Rao, S.
Ravishankar, G. A.
 
Subject 10 Plants
01 Biotechnology and Bioengineering
15 Flavour/Fragrance/Perfumes
 
Description This review deals with the Vanilla plant: history; botanical description; chemistry of vanilla
beans; curing of vanilla beans; commercial extraction of vanilla flavour; standard specifications and
uses of vanilla flavour. The production of vanillin by both chemical and biotechnological methods is
described. The biotechnological production of vanilla flavour metabolites by plant tissue/cell culture,
microbial biotransformation and molecular approaches is also presented, together with a discussion
on economic and safety considerations.
 
Date 2000
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://ir.cftri.com/1758/1/J_Sci_Food_Agric_80_289-304_%282000%29.pdf
Ramachandra Rao, S. and Ravishankar, G. A. (2000) Vanilla flavour: production by conventional and biotechnological routes. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 80. pp. 289-304.