Fig. 1

Two stage shake flask experiments with P. chrysogenum and crude SBO supplemented in the preculture media. At the transfer from preculture to main culture, 3 shake flasks were inoculated from one preculture medium in order to check reproducibility. Plot a shows the CDW after 55 h of preculture at the time point of transfer with respect to different amounts of added SBO and a control run without supplementation (ctrl). Plot b shows the corresponding product concentration at the end of the main culture