physiological function
strain is able to produce high amounts of vanillin when grown in the presence of isoeugenol, and is also capable of growing on isoeugenol as the sole carbon source. In the presence of isoeugenol, a growing culture produces 0.61 g/l vanillin (molar yield of 12.4%), whereas cell free extracts result in 0.9 g/l vanillin (molar yield of 14%)