Bioresource Utilization and Management (PDF)

Hrudayanath Thatoi, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology of North Orissa University, Baripada, India, where he is also working as the Director of the Centre for Similipal Studies. He has initiated several research projects funded by UGC-DAE Govt. of India, DST Govt. of Odisha, and Forest Department, Govt. of Odisha. To date, Dr. Thatoi has published books, including two textbooks, and more than 250 research papers, proceedings of conferences, and book chapters. He serves as member of several scientific societies and editorial boards of the national and international journals. He is a Fellow of the Society of Applied Biotechnology.

Swagat Kumar Das, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at College of Engineering and Technology at Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, India. He has more than nine years of teaching experience and has published over 20 research and review articles as well as several book chapters. He has also co-authored two books. His research activities involve phytochemical analysis and drug development from mangrove plants for diabetes and oxidative stress.

Mrs. Sonali Mohapatra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, CET, Bhubaneswar, India, and is pursuing her PhD at the College of Engineering and Technology, Ghatika, India. She has been working on biofertilizer production using industrial waste biomass as well as on a metabolomics approach for improving the ethanol tolerance capacity of ethalogenic microorganisms. Mrs. Mohapatra has published more than 15 original research papers in reputed international journals and eight international book chapters and has filed one patent to date.