Journal of Fungi Article Fungal Treatment for the Valorization of Technical Soda Lignin Mariane Daou 1,† , Clementina Farfan Soto 1, Amel Majira 2, Laurent Cézard 2, Betty Cottyn 2, Florian Pion 2, David Navarro 1,3, Lydie Oliveira Correia 4 , Elodie Drula 1, Eric Record 1 , Sana Raouche 1 , Stéphanie Baumberger 2 and Craig B. Faulds 1,* 1 French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), UMR1163, Biodiversité et Biotechnologie Fongiques, Aix Marseille University, 13288 Marseille, France;
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[email protected] † Present address: Department of Chemistry, Khalifa University, P.O. Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Abstract: Technical lignins produced as a by-product in biorefinery processes represent a potential source of renewable carbon. In consideration of the possibilities of the industrial transformation of this substrate into various valuable bio-based molecules, the biological deconstruction of a technical soda lignin by filamentous fungi was investigated.