“…Owing to the development of sequencing technology, a lot of work has been done recently focusing on the microbial community in this fermentation process. The high-throughput sequencing results suggested that bacterial community composition is brandrelated (Rooney et al, 2005;Chopyk et al, 2017;Smyth et al, 2017;Malayil et al, 2020), origin-related (Su et al, 2011;Yang et al, 2020;Xing et al, 2021;Ye et al, 2021) and fermentation process-related (Li et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2020;Zhou et al, 2020Zhou et al, , 2021Liu et al, 2021). Recently, chattopadhyay et al overviewed the bacterial and fungal microbial communities in commercial tobacco products, and 89 unique bacterial genera and 19 fungal genera were identified in different tobacco products.…”