“…Oleaginous yeast have potential as a viable alternative oil-source but manufacturing for commoditybased products is cost-prohibitive mainly due to the high costs of feedstocks. Oleaginous yeast are capable of generating SCO from a variety of low-valued inedible plant-based feedstocks including corn cobs (Huang et al, 2012;Gao et al, 2014), corn residue Galafassi et al, 2012;Sitepu et al, 2014), corn fiber (Liang et al, 2014), rice straw (Huang et al, 2009), sorghum bagasse (Liang et al, 2012), sugarcane bagasse (Tsigie, 2011), and wheat straw (Yu et al, 2011). The oleaginous yeast Lipomyces starkeyi has considerable potential as a viable SCO producer due to its ability to produce high amounts of oil from hemicellulose-derived sugars including xylose (Anschau et al, 2014).…”