“…Recently, studies have been carried out to decrease GA 3 production costs using several approaches, such as screening fungi (Kumar and Lonsane, 1986;Machado et al, 2001;Uthandi, Karthikeyan and Sabarinathan, 2010), optimizing the nutrients and culture conditions (Kumar and Lonsane, 1990;Machado et al, 2001, Machado, Soccol andPandey, 2002;Corona, Sanchez and Agostin, 2005), using agro-industrial residues as a substrate, developing new processes (immobilizes cells, fed-batch culture, airlift bioreactor) and minimizing the extraction procedure costs (Kumar and Lonsane, 1987;Tang, Zhou and Duan, 2000;Chavez-Parga et al, 2008;Meleigy and Khalaf, 2009;Berrios, Pyle and Aroca, 2010). Therefore, in recent years, the possibility of using solid-state fermentation (SSF) has attracted a great deal of attention (Kumar and Lonsane, 1990;Pastrana, Gonzalez and Murado, 1993;Bandelier, Renaud and Durand, 1997;Gelmi et al, 2000;Corona, Sanchez and Agostin, 2005 the SSF technique has shown a number of economic advantages over the SmF process in the production of microbial biomass and metabolites and adding value to the agro-industrial by-products (Pandey, 1992;Soccol, 1996;Pandey et al, 2001;Soccol and Vandenberghe, 2003;Soccol et al, 2006).…”