Xiao, Jianbin
Lin, Wei
Chen, Xingtong
Yu, Haoyu
Chen, Chao
Li, Qin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7942-6685
Cai, Fan
Zhang, Huaidong https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-4737
Chen, Huibin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9863-4786
Zhang, Mingliang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5363-1012
Zhou, Yongjin J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2369-3079
Article History
Received: 18 November 2025
Accepted: 27 March 2026
First Online: 21 April 2026
Competing interests
: L.L., M.Z., F.C. and J.X. are inventors on pending patent applications (Chinese patent application CN 202411070679.1 and PCT application PCT/CN2024/135456), related to the microbial production of sorbic acid described in this work. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.