Getting lipids from glycerol: new perspectives on biotechnological exploitation of Candida freyschussii.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Microbial lipids represent a valuable alternative feedstock for biodiesel production when oleaginous microbes are cultured with inexpensive substrates in processes exhibiting high yield and productivity. In this perspective, crude glycerol is among the most promising raw materials for lipid production, because it is the costless residual of biodiesel production. Thus, cultivation of oleaginous yeasts in glycerol-based media is attracting great interest and natural biodiversity is increasingly explored to identify novel oleaginous species recycling this carbon source for growth and lipid production.

Results

Thirty-three yeasts strains belonging to 19 species were screened for the ability to grow and produce intracellular lipids in a pure glycerol-based medium with

SUBMITTER: Raimondi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4064286 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature