Correction to: Biotechnol Biofuels (2019) 12:274 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-019-1612-7

The original version of the article [1] unfortunately contained a mistake in author’s first name. The name of the author has been corrected from Wenqing Wang to Wenqin Wang in this correction article. The original article [1] has been corrected.