Highlights•Oleaginous fungi and microalgae are suitable sources of PUFAs.•Genetic
engineering for improving oil accumulation and fatty acid composition.•Overexpression of …

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) of the ω-3 and ω-6 class (eg, α-linolenic acid, linoleic
acid) are essential for maintaining biofunctions in mammalians like humans. Due to the fact …

Moving our society towards a bioeconomy requires efficient and sustainable microbial
production of chemicals and fuels. Rhodotorula (Rhodosporidium) toruloides is a yeast that …

The last years there has been a significant rise in the number of publications in the
international literature that deal with the production of lipids by microbial sources (the 'single …

The agri-food industry annually produces huge amounts of crops residues and wastes, the
suitable management of these products is important to increase the sustainability of agro …

Oleaginous microorganisms are able to convert numerous agro-industrial and municipal
wastes into storage lipids (single cell oil (SCO)) and are therefore considered as potential …

The majority of environmental problems arise from the use of conventional energy sources.
The liability of such problems along with the reduction of fossil energy resources has led to …

Corncob is a kind of abundant lignocellulosic biomass. One of the bottlenecks in utilization
of corncob in fermentation industry is many microorganisms cannot ferment xylose, which is …

Yarrowia lipolytica cultivated under double nitrogen and magnesium limitation, but not under
single nitrogen or single magnesium limitation, produced 12.2 g/l biomass containing 47.5 …

The production of lipids from oleaginous yeasts involves several stages starting from
cultivation and lipid accumulation, biomass harvesting and finally lipids extraction. However …