Biotechnology for Agro-Industrial Residues Utilisation

PART I: General.1. Agro-Industrial Residue Utilization for Industrial Biotechnology Products; Erick J. Vandamme.2. Pre-treatment of Agro-Industrial Residues; Poonam Singh Nigam, Nutan Gupta and Ashish Anthwal. PART II: Production of Industrial Products Using Agro-Industrial Residues as Substrates.3. Production of Organic Acids from Agro-Industrial Residues; Poonam Singh Nigam.4. Biofuels; Soham Chattopadhyay, Asmita Mukerji and Ramkrishna Sen.5. Production of Protein-Enriched Feed Using Agro-Industrial Residues as Substrates; J. Obeta Ugwuanyi, Brian McNeil and Linda M. Harvey.6. Aroma Compounds; Syed G. Dastager.7. Production of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites; Poonam Singh Nigam.8. Microbial Pigments; Sumathy Babitha.9. Production of Mushrooms Using Agro-Industrial Residues as Substrates; Antonios N. Philippousis.10. Solid-State Fermentation Technology for Bioconversion of Biomass and Agro-industrial Residues; Poonam Singh Nigam and Ashok Pandey. PART III: Biotechnological Potential of Agro-Industrial Residues for Bioprocesses.11. Cassava Bagasse; Rojan P. John.12. Sugarcane Bagasse; Binod Parameswaran.13. Edible Oil Cakes; Swetha Sivaramakrishnan and Dhanya Gangadharan.14. Biotechnological Potential of Fruit Processing Industry Residues; Diomi Mamma, Evangelos Topakas, Christina Vafiadi and Paul Christakopoulos.15. Wine Industry Residues; Bo Jin and Joan M. Kelly.16. Biotechnological Potential of Brewing Industry By-products; Solange I. Mussatto.17. Biotechnological Potential of Cereal (Wheat & Rice) Straw and Bran Residues; Hongzhang Chen, Ye Yang and Jianxing Zhang.18. Palm Oil Industry Residues; Mynepalli K.C. Sridhar and Olugbenga O. AdeOluwa. PART IV: Enzymes Degrading Agro-Industrial Residues and their Production.19. Amylolytic Enzymes; Dhanya Gangadharan and Swetha Sivaramakrishnan.20. Cellulolytic Enzymes; Reeta Rani Singhania.21. Pectinolytic Enzymes; Nicemol Jacob.22. Ligninolytic Enzymes; K.N. Niladevi. PART V: Bioconversion of Agro-Industrial

Professor Ashok Pandey, MSc, PhD is currently Head of the Biotechnology Division, Regional Research Laboratory, CSIR, Trivandrum, India. He graduated from the University of Kanpur and took his Master's degree with a first class in Chemistry. He followed this with a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Allahabad. Then he worked as scientist in the National Sugar Institute, Kanpur and Suddeutsche Zucker AG, Germany. He joined the Regional Research Laboratory, CSIR at Trivandrum in 1987. He has been Visiting Professor to UFPR- Brazil, UBP- France and UNESCO Professor. Ashok has strong research interest in the area of Industrial Biotechnology, especially in Bioprocess Technology. During the past 28 years of his career, the research carried out has credited him with five patents, 17 books, 12 technical reports and about 200 papers. He has supervised five PhDs and 57 Master s students. He has won several awards, which include Best Scientific Work Achievement award from the Cuban Govt, Raman Research Fellowship Award, GBF, Germany and CNRS, France Fellowships, Young Scientist Award, etc. He occupies the Chair (F&H) of the International Society of Food, Agriculture and Environment (Finland), President of Biotech Research Society of India, President of the Association of Microbiologists of India (Trivandrum chapter), Vice-Chairman (Kerala) of the All India Biotech Association- SC and life-member of the National Academy of Sciences (I), Society of Biological Chemists (I), Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (I), and Association of Microbiologists of India. He serves as the Editor of Bioresource Technology and is also on the Editorial Board of four other international and five Indian journals. He has also edited an Encyclopaedia published by Haworth Press, USA. His current R&D efforts are on mainly on Bioconversion of biomass, solid-state fermentation, biotechnological application agro-industrial residues for value addition, etc.