Yarrowia lipolytica is characterized by GRAS (Generally regarded as safe) status, the versatile substrate utilization profile, rapid utilization rates, metabolic diversity and flexibility, the unique abilities to tolerate to extreme environments (acidic, alkaline, hypersaline, heavy metal-pollutions and others) and elevated biosynthesis and secreting capacities. These advantages of Y. lipolytica allow us to consider it as having great ecological significance. Unfortunately, there is still a paucity of relevant review data. This mini-review highlights ecological ubiquity of Y. lipolytica species, their ability to diversify and colonize specialized niches. Different Y. lipolytica strains, native and engineered, are beneficial in degrading many environmental pollutants causing serious ecological problems worldwide. In agriculture has a potential to be a bio-control agent by stimulating plant defense response, and an eco-friendly bio-fertilizer. Engineered strains of Y. lipolytica have become a very promising platform for eco-friendly production of biofuel, commodities, chemicals and secondary metabolites of plant origin, obtaining which by other method were limited or economically infeasible, or were accompanied by stringent environmental problems. Perspectives to use potential of Y. lipolytica’s capacities for industrial scale production of valuable compounds in an eco-friendly manner are proposed.

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解脂耶氏酵母：具有生态意义的多能酵母物种

解脂耶氏酵母的特点是 GRAS（通常被认为是安全的）状态、多功能的底物利用概况、快速的利用率、代谢多样性和灵活性，以及​​对极端环境（酸性、碱性、高盐度、重金属污染等）的独特耐受能力) 和提高的生物合成和分泌能力。解脂耶氏酵母的这些优点使我们认为它具有重要的生态意义。不幸的是，仍然缺乏相关的评论数据。这篇小型评论强调了解脂耶氏酵母物种的生态普遍性，它们多样化和定殖特定生态位的能力。不同的解脂耶氏酵母菌株，无论是天然的还是工程的，都有益于降解许多导致全球严重生态问题的环境污染物。在农业中，通过刺激植物防御反应，有可能成为一种生物防治剂，以及一种生态友好的生物肥料。解脂耶氏酵母的工程菌株已成为生态友好地生产生物燃料、商品、化学品和植物源次生代谢物的非常有前景的平台，而通过其他方法获得这些资源是有限的或经济上不可行的，或者伴随着严重的环境问题。提出了利用解脂耶氏酵母以生态友好方式工业规模生产有价值化合物的潜力的前景。植物来源的化学物质和次生代谢物，通过其他方法获得有限或经济上不可行，或伴随着严重的环境问题。提出了利用解脂耶氏酵母以生态友好方式工业规模生产有价值化合物的潜力的前景。植物来源的化学物质和次生代谢物，通过其他方法获得有限或经济上不可行，或伴随着严重的环境问题。提出了利用解脂耶氏酵母以生态友好方式工业规模生产有价值化合物的潜力的前景。