Abstract Background Mitigation of climate change requires that new routes for the production fuels and chemicals be as oil-independent possible. The microbial conversion lignocellulosic feedstocks into terpene-based biofuels bioproducts represents one such route. This work builds upon previous demonstrations single-celled carotenogenic basidiomycete, Rhodosporidium toruloides , is a promising h...

BACKGROUND Microbial lipids (triacylglycerols, TAG) have received large attention for a sustainable production of oleochemicals and biofuels. Rhodosporidium toruloides can accumulate lipids up to 70% of its cell mass under certain conditions. However, our understanding of lipid production in this yeast is still much limited, especially for growth with mixed substrates at the level of metabolic ...