Rhodotorula toruloides strain:CCT 0783 Genome sequencing and assembly. Rhodotorula toruloides strain:CCT 0783

Rhodotorula toruloides (formerly known as Rhodosporidium toruloides) is an oleaginous and carotenogenic yeast able to consume a wide range of carbon and nitrogen sources. This yeast has the potential to be a biotech workhorse and is able to transform renewable resources into raw materials for oleochemicals, animal feed, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. The genome sequence of R. toruloides is important to provide information for future metabolic engineering and synthetic biology tools.