	US 11,946,088 B2
	Method for processing oil crops with rhodotorula
Yuanfa Liu, Wuxi (CN); Zhongyang Ding, Wuxi (CN); Yunzhi Jiang, Wuxi (CN); Liting Zhao, Wuxi (CN); Mengmeng Xu, Wuxi (CN); Qi Zhang, Wuxi (CN); Zhenghua Gu, Wuxi (CN); and Guiyang Shi, Wuxi (CN)
Assigned to JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY, Wuxi (CN)
Filed by Jiangnan University, Wuxi (CN)
Filed on Jun. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/351,322.
Application 17/351,322 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2018/123816, filed on Dec. 26, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 201811553634.4 (CN), filed on Dec. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0310035 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. C12P 23/00 (2006.01); C12N 1/16 (2006.01); C12P 7/6436 (2022.01)

CPC C12P 23/00 (2013.01) [C12N 1/16 (2013.01); C12P 7/6436 (2013.01)]

8 Claims

1. A method for producing soybean oil and oil crop meal rich in carotenoid, which comprises:

inoculating rhodotorula that produces carotenoid into a fermentation medium comprising oil crop powder;

incubating the fermentation medium with rhodotorula for 4 to 6 days under conditions that cause fermentation, thereby obtaining a fermented product; and

pressing oil from the fermented product to obtain oil and oil crop meal;

wherein the fermentation is a solid state fermentation;

wherein the oil crop powder consists of soybean powder, and

wherein the oil and/or the oil crop meal comprise carotenoid at a concentration of up to 9.071 μg/g of the oil and a concentration of up to 7.627 μg/g of the oil crop meal.