Biorefinery of vineyard winter prunings for production of microbial lipids by the oleaginous yeast Cryptococcus curvatus

•Components of the vine winter prunings (VWPs) from 40 cultivars were characterized.•Alkali-methanol pretreatment was adopted for facilitating the hydrolysis of VWPs.•Up to 95.8% of the reducing sugars were released from the regenerated VWPs.•The reducing sugars were converted into microbial lipids....

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