Application of plant protoplasts for the production of useful metabolites

An efficient system for the production of useful metabolites by immobilized plant protoplasts (protoplasts with artificial cell walls) was developed. An advantage of the system is that the products are released readily into the culture medium with the double benefits of increasing overall productivity and facilitating downstream processing. This system solves many of the problems of conventional production systems using cells. This novel system has great potential in the production of useful metabolites; by using this system, it may become possible to efficiently produce many useful metabolites that are often difficult to produce with conventional methods.