“…Inhibitor‐tolerant Komagataeibacter species could position the pretreatment liquid as a valuable resource for production of bacterial nanocellulose by directly converting, and thereby concentrating the glucose present at low concentration levels into an insoluble, readily recovered value‐added product (Zhang, Winestrand, Chen, et al, ; Zhang, Winestrand, Guo, et al, ; Zou et al, ). However, pretreatment liquid contains, in addition to dilute sugars (such as glucose and xylose), acetic acid and phenolic inhibitors in a range of lignocellulosic feedstocks (Table ; Cao et al, ; Cao, Ximenes, Nichols, Zhang, & Ladisch, ; D. Kim et al, ; Michelin, Ximenes, Polizeli, & Ladisch, ; Ximenes, Farinas, Kim, & Ladisch, ; Ximenes, Kim, Mosier, Dien, & Ladisch, , ). Hence, inhibitor tolerant bacteria are required to avoid costs of removing inhibitors (Guo et al, ), particularly phenolics, and would enable the generation of bacterial nanocellulose in the presence of inhibitors generated by liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment.…”