“…The high cost of these procedures limited ALA microbial production and application (Chen et al, 2020 ). Large amounts of waste biomass, such as cassava residue (CR) (Wang et al, 2012 ) and fish waste (FW) (Huo et al, 2010 ), are produced annually in China, which could be cheap resources for microbial synthesis of value‐added products such as ALA (Yu et al, 2018 ), since the acid hydrolysates of CR and FW are rich in glucose (Cai et al, 2012 ), amino acids and growth factors (Samat et al, 2018 ).…”