Niraj Singh

The primary focus of the topic is on the production of energy. Here, energy production typically refers to the conversion of waste algal biomass into various forms of usable energy. This could include electricity, biofuels (e.g., biodiesel, bioethanol), biogas, or other forms of renewable energy. Conversion of algal biomass to fuels via extraction of lipids (and potentially other components), through 'algal lipid upgrading' or ALU pathway, combined algal process (CAP) and parallel algal process (PAP). ALU approach based on a biochemical processing strategy to selectively recover and convert select algal biomass components to fuels, namely carbohydrates to ethanol and lipids to a renewable diesel blendstock (RDB) product. The scope of the topic encompasses the various methods and technologies used to convert waste algal biomass into energy. This could involve processes like anaerobic digestion, fermentation, pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, or other innovative techniques. The topic may touch upon ongoing research, technological advancements, and potential areas of improvement related to waste algal biomass-based energy production.

Ralstonia solanacearum is a Gram-negative plant pathogenic bacterium that causes lethal wilt disease in exceptionally wide range of plant species. Due to its expanding host range, this wilt pathogen is emerging as a big threat for crops and ornamental plants. Bacterial wilt caused by R. solanacearum is also termed as Granville wilt in tobacco, brown rot in potato and Moko disease in banana. Because of its mysterious infection behavior, R. solanacearum pathogenicity and disease progression study has been still a big challenge among plant pathologist. In this background, this book has given a detail description of an easy and innovative root inoculation approach to study R. solanacearum pathogenicity and disease progression in early seedling stage of tomato plant. The approach described here is a rapid, consistent as well as very much economical in terms of time, space and labor. Hence, the assay explained here is an useful and less resource dependent way to investigate and understand pathogen virulence functions as well as its interaction with the host plant during disease progression and wilting at the early seedling stage.