PROCESS FOR INDUCING SECONDARY METABOLITE PRODUCTION IN PLANT CULTURES AND MEANS THEREOF - Patent 0277250

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EP 0 277 250 A1

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(43)	Date of publication:
	10.08.1988 Bulletin 1988/32

(21)	Application number: 87904973.0

(22)	Date of filing: 03.08.1987

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

A01G 1/ 00^{( . )}
C12N 5/ 00^{( . )}
C12P 17/ 18^{( . )}

A01H 4/ 00^{( . )}
C12N 5/ 04^{( . )}
C12R 1/ 91^{( . )}

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/JP1987/000583

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 1988/000968 (11.02.1988 Gazette 1988/04)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	BE DE FR GB IT

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Priority:

04.08.1986 US 19860892938

(71)	Applicant: MITSUI PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
	Tokyo 100 (JP)

(72)	Inventors:
	SMITH, Jane, Isobel Toronto Ontario M5R 2R1 (CA) SMART, Nigel, John Mississauga Ontario L5C 3X5 (CA) MISAWA, Masanaru Weston Ontario M9R 4A4 (CA)

(74)	Representative: Myerscough, Philip Boyd, et al
	J.A.KEMP & CO. 14, South Square Gray's Inn London WC1R 5LX London WC1R 5LX (GB)

(54)	PROCESS FOR INDUCING SECONDARY METABOLITE PRODUCTION IN PLANT CULTURES AND MEANS THEREOF