A sustainable future requires novel technologies that transform renewable feedstocks into liquid transport fuels, materials, and fine chemicals. Existing sugarcane biorefineries (sugar mills) generate a wide range of renewable feedstocks that can be readily converted into value-added products. Emerging biorefinery technologies offer further expansion of the products that can be generated in sugarcane biorefineries but biocatalysts that can use by-products and residues from these emerging technologies are needed to fully realize the opportunity these technologies represent. Filamentous fungi are versatile biocatalysts that can transform sugarcane biorefinery by-products and residues into a wide range of valuable products. This review provides an overview of sugarcane-based biorefining, existing and emerging processing technologies with application in sugarcane biorefineries; the residues and by-products generated in such a facility; and the opportunities to use filamentous fungi as biocatalysts to produce enzymes, organic acids, single cell protein, specialized metabolites, and animal feed.

可持续的未来需要将可再生原料转化为液体运输燃料，材料和精细化学品的新颖技术。现有的甘蔗生物精炼厂（糖厂）可产生各种各样的可再生原料，这些原料可以很容易地转化为增值产品。新兴的生物精炼技术进一步扩展了可在甘蔗生物精炼厂生产的产品，但是需要能够利用这些新兴技术的副产物和残留物的生物催化剂，以充分利用这些技术所代表的机会。丝状真菌是多功能的生物催化剂，可以将甘蔗生物精炼厂的副产物和残渣转化为多种有价值的产物。这篇评论概述了基于甘蔗的生物精炼，在甘蔗生物精炼厂中应用的现有和新兴加工技术；在该设施中产生的残留物和副产品；并有机会利用丝状真菌作为生物催化剂来生产酶，有机酸，单细胞蛋白，专门的代谢产物和动物饲料。