Claudia Segal-Kischinevzky, Lucero Romero-Aguilar, Luis D Alcaraz, Geovani López-Ortiz, Blanca Martínez-Castillo, Nayeli Torres-Ramírez, Georgina Sandoval, James González
Yeasts are microscopic fungi inhabiting all Earth environments, including those inhospitable for most life forms, considered extreme environments. According to their habitats, yeasts could be extremotolerant or extremophiles. Some are polyextremophiles, depending on their growth capacity, tolerance, and survival in the face of their habitat's physical and chemical constitution. The extreme yeasts are relevant for the industrial production of value-added compounds, such as biofuels, lipids, carotenoids, recombinant proteins, enzymes, among others...
April 9, 2022: Microorganisms