© The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Erratum to: Microb Cell Fact (2016) 15:185 DOI 10.1186/s12934‐016‐0588‐2 Upon publication of this article [1], it was brought to our attention that Figure 7 contained an error. (−)-α-bisabolol is shown in g/L and not mg/L as incorrectly presented in the original version of the article. The correct figure is given in this erratum (Fig. 7). Author details 1 Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea. 2 Biosystems and Bioengineering Program, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea. 3 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Repub‐ lic of Korea. 4 Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Yeosu 550749, Republic of Korea. 5 Bioenergy and Biochemical Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Dae‐ jeon 34141, Republic of Korea. 6 Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Plus), PMBBRC, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea.