Lan Yao,†ab Haitao Yang,†c Chang Geun Yoo,d Congxin Chen,e Xianzhi Meng,b Jun Dai,a Chunlei Yang,f Jun Yu,f Arthur J. Ragauskas*bgh and Xiong Chen*a
a Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering (Ministry of Education), College of Bioengineering, Hubei University of Technology, 28th of Nanli Road, Wuhan 430068, China
b Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA
c Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Materials for Light Industry, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China
d Department of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
e China Tobacco Hubei Industrial Cigarette Materials, LLC, Wuhan 430050, China
f Tobacco Research Institute of Hubei Province, 6 Baofeng Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan 430030, China
g Joint Institute for Biological Sciences, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
h Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, Center for Renewable Carbon, The University of Tennessee, Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA
† The two authors contributed equally to this paper.