Oleaginous Yeasts as Cell Factories for the Sustainable Production of Microbial Lipids by the Valorization of Agri-Food Wastes

The agri-food industry annually produces huge amounts of crops residues and wastes, the suitable management these products is important to increase sustainability agro-industrial production by optimizing entire value chain. This also in line with driving principles circular economy, according which can become feedstocks for novel processes. Oleaginous yeasts represent a versatile tool produce biobased chemicals intermediates. They are flexible microbial factories able grow on different side-stream carbon sources such as those deriving from this characteristic makes them excellent candidates integrated biorefinery processes through lipids, known single cell oils (SCOs), applications. review aims present an extensive overview research progress use oleaginous discussions current bottlenecks perspectives their exploitation sectors, foods, biofuels fine chemicals.