Fungal Biorefineries

Preface.- Chapter 1 Role of Fungi in Biorefinery: A Perspective Kanika Chowdhary, Usha Prasad, Satyawati Sharma.- Chapter 2 Production of Biofuels from Biomass by Fungi Gail Joseph, Lijun Wang.- Chapter 3 White-rot Fungal Xylanases for Applications in Pulp and Paper industry Shalini Singh.- Chapter 4 Fungal Enzymes Applied to Industrial Processes for Bioethanol Production Cecilia Laluce, Kelly J. Dussán, Marisa V. Capella.- Chapter 5 Economical Lactic Acid Production and Optimization Strategies Sheelendra M. Bhatt.- Chapter 6 Exploiting Innate and Imported Fungal Capacity for Xylitol Production Shaik Jakeer.- Chapter 7 Insights into Fungal Xylose Reductases and its Application in Xylitol Production Yogita Lugani, Balwinder Singh Sooch.- Chapter 8 Single Cell Oils (SCOs) of Oleaginous Filamentous Fungi as a Renewable Feedstock: A Biodiesel Biorefinery Approach Mahesh Khot, Gouri Katre, Smita Zinjarde, Ameeta RaviKumar.- Chapter 9 Fungal Biorefinery for the Production of Single Cell Oils as Advanced Biofuels Abu Yousuf, Baranitharan Ethiraj, Maksudur Rahman Khan, Domenico Pirozzi.- Chapter 10 Production of Single Cell Protein (SCP) from Vinasse Ernesto Acosta Martínez, Jéssica Ferreira dos Santos, Geiza Suzart Araujo, Sílvia Maria Almeida de Souza, Rita de Cássia Lacerda Brambilla Rodrigues, and Eliana Vieira Canettieri.- Index.

 

Dr. Sachin Kumar is a Deputy Director in the Biochemical Conversion Division at the Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala, India. He was as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, USA for a year. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India and has more than twelve years of research experience in Biochemical Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels including lignocellulosic ethanol, biogas, biohydrogen, etc. He has completed six research projects and one consultancy project and actively engaged in two on-going research projects. Dr. Sachin has published more than 45 papers in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and papers in conference proceedings and 7 edited books. He has one granted US patent and one filed Indian patent. He has delivered more than 15 invited/plenary lectures and presented more than 60 papers in national and international conferences. He is a recipient of 2016 ASM-IUSSTF Indo-US Research Professorship and selected as Bioenergy-Awards for Cutting Edge Research (B-ACER) Fellow 2016 by DBT and IUSSTF.

Dr. Pratibha Dheeran is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Maharaj Singh College, Saharanpur, India. Dr. Dheeran has Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from Jiwaji University, Gwalior/Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun India. She has master degree in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and MSc in Botany from Chaudhary Charan Singh University Meerut. She has been awarded DST Fast Track Young Scientist Grant by Department of Science and Technology, India. She is a recipient of Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship by Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Dheeran has eight years of research experience in Biocatalysis, Thermophilic microbiology and Biofuels. She has eight research