“…To screen for oleaginous yeast strains, all the yeast strains were determined for their lipid accumulation in a limited nitrogen source condition using 2G2M medium containing 20 g L −1 glucose and 20 g L −1 malt extract, which was modified from the medium used by Yamazaki et al [ 43 ]. The cultivation of yeast in nitrogen-limited medium has been reported to promote lipid accumulation of the oleaginous yeast strains [ 10 , 11 , 33 , 36 , 44 ]. To prepare an inoculum, one loopful of isolated yeast strain was inoculated in 50 mL of YM broth in a 250 mL Erlenmeyer flask and incubated on a rotary shaker (ZWYR-211C Labwit, Victoria, Australia) at 30 °C, 150 rpm for 24 h. Cells were collected by centrifugation (3700 Kubota, Tokyo Japan) at 4 °C, 5000 rpm, 10 min, washed with sterile normal saline solution, and adjusted to OD 1 at 600 nm.…”