Erratum to: Biotechnol Biofuels (2016) 9:97 DOI 10.1186/s13068-016-0505-2

Unfortunately, after publication of this article [1], it was noticed that the capturing of Table 4 during the production process introduced several items in the ‘Sugar Yields’ column listed in the wrong row. The corrected table can be seen in this erratum (Table 4).

Table 4 Comparison of hydrothermal/chemical pretreatment followed by mechanical refining and hydrothermal/chemical pretreatment alone or mechanical refining alone