Improvement of biosurfactant production by Wickerhamomyces anomalus CCMA 0358 and its potential application in bioremediation

The authors acknowledge the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for the financial support under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006684), and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 – Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. The authors also thank the FCT for the financial support under the scope of the Project MultiBiorefinery – Multi‐purpose strategies for broadband agro‐forest and fisheries by‐products valorisation: a step forward for a truly integrated biorefinery (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016403). E. J. Gudina was supported by the Post-Doctoral grant CEB-BPD/01/2015/07 from the project UID/BIO/04469/2013, funded by FCT.