Publications by authors named "Pankajkumar Waghmare"

Article Synopsis
  • *Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) combines enzyme production, saccharification, and fermentation into one step using specific microbes, offering a more efficient approach to biomass conversion.
  • *The review discusses various CBP strategies, including natural, biosynthetic, and co-culturing microorganisms, and highlights innovative ways to utilize lignocellulosic biomass for producing valuable chemicals.
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Biomass-degrading enzymes produced by microorganisms have a great potential in the processing of agricultural wastes. In order to produce suitable biomass-degrading enzymes for releasing sugars and aroma compounds from tobacco scraps, the feasibility of directly using the scraps as a carbon source for enzyme production was investigated in this study. By comparative studies of ten fungal strains isolated from tobacco leaves, Aspergillus brunneoviolaceus Ab-10 was found to produce an efficient enzyme mixture for the saccharification of tobacco scraps.

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Endoglucanase (EG) is a key enzyme during enzymatic preparation of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs). is a thermophilic fungus that has thermal properties and a high secretion of endoglucanases (EGs), and could serve as potential sources of EGs for the preparation of CNCs. In this work, four different GH families (GH5, GH7, GH12, and GH45) of EGs from were expressed and purified, and their enzymatic characteristics and feasibility of application in CNC preparation were investigated.

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Nanobodies derived from camelid single-chain antibodies have the advantages of being small, simple, highly soluble and stable. Nanobodies can be administered by inhalation and therefore is potentially valuable for the prevention and control of respiratory viruses. is a food-grade protein expression host with a cellulase production capacity of up to 80 g/L, which can be employed for low-cost production of therapeutic proteins.

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Efficient cellulolytic enzyme production is important for the development of lignocellulose-degrading enzyme mixtures. However, purification of cellulases from their native hosts is time- and labor-consuming. In this study, a constitutive expression system was developed in for the secreted production of proteins.

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We evaluated various agricultural lignocellulosic biomass and variety of fungi to produce cellulolytic enzymes cocktail to yield high amount of reducing sugars. Solid-state fermentation was performed using water hyacinth, paddy straw, corn straw, soybean husk/tops, wheat straw, and sugarcane bagasse using fungi like Nocardiopsis sp. KNU, Trichoderma reesei, Trichoderma viride, Aspergillus flavus, and Phanerochaete chrysosporium alone and in combination to produce cellulolytic enzymes.

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In this study, we have described three steps to produce ethanol from , which was derived after the treatment of textile wastewater. (a) Production of biomass: biomass samples collected from a hydroponic phytoreactor treating dye textile effluents and augmented with Ca-alginate immobilized growth-promoting bacterium, strain PgJ (consortium phytoreactor), and waste sorghum husks were collected and dried. Compositional analysis of biomass (consortium phytoreactor) showed that the concentration of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin was 42, 30 and 17%, respectively, whereas the biomass samples without the growth-promoting bacterium (normal phytoreactor) was slightly lower, 40, 29 and 16%, respectively.

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Nocardiopsis sp. KNU was found to degrade various lignocellulosic waste materials, namely, sorghum husk, sugarcane tops and leaves, wheat straw, and rice husk very efficiently. The strain was found to produce high amounts of cellulase and hemicellulase.

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A static hydroponic bioreactor using nursery grown plants of Pogonatherum crinitum along with immobilized Bacillus pumilus cells was developed for the treatment of textile wastewater. Independent reactors with plants and immobilized cells were also kept for performance and efficacy evaluation. The effluent samples characterized before and after their treatment showed that the plant-bacterial consortium reactor was more efficient than those of individual plant and bacterium reactors.

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Sugarcane bagasse (SCB) adsorbes 60% Reactive Blue172 (RB172). Providensia staurti EbtSPG able to decolorize SCB adsorbed RB172 up to 99% under solid state fermentation (SSF). The enzymatic saccharification efficiency of waste biomass after bioremediation of RB172 process (ddSCB) has been evaluated.

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