Cell factories for biorefinery: core of the technology for biomanufacture
生物炼制细胞工厂：生物制造的技术核心

The background of developing cell factories for biorefinery was reviewed. Seventeen papers published in this special issue, covering the molecular mechanism of sugar utilization; genome-scale metabolic and regulative networks, the construction technologies, and the optimization of cell factories for biorefinery, were introduced.