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Microbial Lipid Production pp 1–32Cite as

Microbial Lipid Alternatives to Plant Lipids

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Abstract

Lipids are in high demand in food production, nutritional supplements, detergents, lubricants, and biofuels. Different oil seeds produced from plants are conventionally extracted to yield lipids. With increasing population and reduced availability of cultivable land, conventional methods of producing lipids alone will not satisfy increasing demand. Lipids produced using different microbial sources are considered as sustainable alternative to plant derived lipids. Various microorganisms belonging to the genera of algae, bacteria, yeast, fungi, or marine-derived microorganisms such as thraustochytrids possess the ability to accumulate lipids in their cells. A variety of microbial production technologies are being used to cultivate these organisms under specific conditions using agricultural residues as carbon source to be cost competitive with plant derived lipids. Microbial oils, also known as single cell oils, have many advantages when compared with plant derived lipids, such as shorter life cycle, less labor required, season and climate independence, no use of arable land and ease of scale-up. In this chapter we compare the lipids derived from plants and different microorganisms. We also highlight various analytical techniques that are being used to characterize the lipids produced in oleaginous organisms and their applications in various processes.

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A.D.J. acknowledges support from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch project MICL02474. VB thanks the University of Houston and the State of Texas for startup funds.

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Jones, A.D., Boundy-Mills, K.L., Barla, G.F., Kumar, S., Ubanwa, B., Balan, V. (2019). Microbial Lipid Alternatives to Plant Lipids. In: Balan, V. (eds) Microbial Lipid Production. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1995. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9484-7_1

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