“…Increasing concerns over global water pollution, climate change, public health, and petroleum shortages have attracted considerable attention to sustainable development as promising green alternatives to traditional petrochemical-derived chemicals renewable feedstock ( Tsuge et al, 2016 ). Recently a variety of valuable chemicals such as 6-aminocaproate ( Cheng et al, 2019 ), fructose ( Yang et al, 2016 ), mandelic acid ( Youn et al, 2020 ), vitamin B 12 ( Fang et al, 2018 ), naringenin ( Gao et al, 2020b ), p -coumaric acid ( Gao et al, 2020a ), breviscapine ( Liu et al, 2018 ), 4-hydroxybenzoic acid ( Klenk et al, 2020 ), curcuminoids ( Rodrigues et al, 2020 ) and hydroxytyrosol ( Zeng et al, 2020 ) have been produced in microorganisms. As a kind of green alternative to petrochemical products, microbial bioplastics are composed of monomers containing appropriate functional groups, which have become the focus of metabolic engineering research.…”