Extremophiles General and Plant Biomass Based Biorefinery

This book, Extremophiles: General and Plant Biomass Based Biorefinery, explores the potential of extremophiles in industries and biomass based biorefinery. The book sheds light on diversity and various applications of thermophiles, psychrophiles, halophiles, alkaliphiles and acidophiles for the production of value-added products including biofuels, extremozymes, etc. The chapters comprehensively emphasize the utility of extremophiles in sustainable biorefinery bioprocesses. This book is an integrated source of literature for scientists, engineers, academicians, and students working in the area of extremophiles, microbial technology and biorefinery.

1. Extremophiles: Diversity, Biotechnological Applications and Current Trends Yogita Lugani and Venkata Ramana Vemuluri 2. Extremophiles for Sustainable Bio-energy Production: Diversity, Enzymology and Current Applications Amit Verma, Tirath Raj, Shulbhi Verma, Varun Kumar and Ruchi Agrawal 3. Extremophiles: Life of Microorganisms in Extreme Environments Rahul Kumar, Ramchander Merugu, Swati Mohapatra, Sneha Sharma and Hemlata 4. Understanding the Role of a Thermophilic Genus Geobacillus in the Hydrolytic and Oxidative Degradation of Plant Biomass Insights from Genomics and Metagenomic Analyses Tanvi Govil, David R. Salem and Rajesh K. Sani 5. Bioprospecting Extremophiles for Sustainable Biobased Industry Neha Basotra, Yashika Raheja, Gaurav Sharma, Kumud Ashish Singh, Diksha Sharma, Rohit Rai and Bhupinder Singh Chadha 6. Exploration of Extremophiles for Value-Added Products: A Step Towards Sustainable Bio-refinery Surojit Bera, Trinetra Mukherjee, Subhabrata Das, Sandip Mondal, Suprabhat Mukherjee and Sagnik Chakraborty 7. Advancements in Extremozymes and their Potential Applications in Biorefinery Nivedita Sharma and Nisha Sharma 8. Psychrophilic Enzymes: Adaptations and Industrial Relevance Shivika Sharma, Vikas Sharma, Subhankar Chatterjee and Sachin Kumar 9. Advancements in Hemicellulosic Extremozymes and Their Applications: A Future Perspective Sweety Kaur, Gurmeen Rakhra and Richa Arora 10. Extremophiles in Aviation Biofuel Production S.M. Bhatt 11. Application of Extremophiles in the Area of Bioenergy Nibedita Sarkar 12. Biofuel Production from Biomass using Extremophilic Microorganisms Sunny Kumar 13. Bioprocessing of Agricultural Residues for Biofuel Production: Current Scenario Richa Arora, Sonali Thakur, Sweety Kaur and Sachin Kumar

Pratibha Dheeran is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Maharaj Singh College, Saharanpur, India. Dr. Dheeran has a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from Jiwaji University, Gwalior/Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun India. She has a master's degree in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and M.Sc. in Botany from Chaudhary Charan Singh University Meerut. She has been awarded DST Fast Track Young Scientist 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 research experience in Biocatalysis, Thermophilic microbiology and Biofuels. She has nine research papers in various peer-reviewed journals, three book chapters and three conference proceedings. She is one of the co-editors of the book titled Fungal Biorefineries (published by Springer in July 2018). Dr. Dheeran is actively engaged as a review editor for Marine Biotechnology and Bioenergy and Biofuels journals. Sachin Kumar is Deputy Director in the Biochemical Conversion Division at the Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala, India. He was Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, USA, for a year. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, and has research experience in biochemical conversion of biomass to biofuels including bioethanol, biogas, biohydrogen, lignin valorization, etc. He has completed eight research projects and one consultancy project. Dr. Sachin has published more than 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and papers in conference proceedings and 7 edited books. He has one granted US patent and 3 filed Indian patents. He has delivered more than 35 invited/plenary lectures and presented more than 75 papers in national and international conferences. He is a recipient of 2016 ASM-IUSSTF Indo-US Research Professorship and wasselected as Bioenergy-Awards for Cutting Edge Research (B-ACER) Fellow 2016 by DBT and IUSSTF.