Abstract
La producción de ácido giberélico (AG), un metabolito secundario obtenido por fermentación con el hongo Gibberella fujikuroi, y de gran importancia en el sector agrícola en donde es aplicado como fitohormona, puede llevarse a cabo en sistemas de células inmovilizadas por adhesión, o por atrapamiento en soportes porosos de diversa naturaleza. Se estudió la inmovilización de Gibberella fujikuroi en sílica gel, carbón activado y vidrio sinterizado. Los biocatalizadores obtenidos se emplearon en fermentaciones sumergidas que se desarrollaron en un tiempo total de 10 días, que incluía la preparación de los inóculos, obteniendo rendimientos de hasta 0.055 mg ácido giberélico/g medio nutritivo. El crecimiento del micelio sobre los soportes inertes se verificó mediante microscopía electrónica de barrido (SEM).Univ. Sci. is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.