Kugen Permaul
Head of Department
Biotechnology and Food Technology
Durban University of Technology
South Africa
Biography
Professor Kugen Permaul, a Professor in the DUT Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology in the Faculty of Applied Sciences.Prof Permaul is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C-rated researcher. He obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of KwaZulu Natal. His early research projects focused on bacterial molecular genetics, especially plasmid biology. He graduated with a PhD in 1999 and spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow before being employed as a lecturer at DUT in 2000.
Research Interest
Prof Permaul’s current research projects focus on expression of xylanase, xylosidase, chitinase and other carbohydrate-degrading genes, the use of chitin as a bio resource and DNA watermarking.
Publications
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Feasibility of Dairy Waste Water (DWW) and Distillery Spent Wash (DSW) Effluents in Increasing the Yield Potential of Pleurotus flabellatus (PF 1832) and Pleurot us sajor - caju (PS 1610) on Bagasse (2012) Ritu Gothwal, Aditi Gupta, Ashwani Kumar , Satyawati Sharma, B.J. Alappat 3Biotech 2 (3) 249 – 257
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Bioaugmented composting of Jatropha de - oiled cake and vegetable waste under aerobic an d partial anaerobic conditions (2012) Shivani Chaturvedi, Ashwani Kumar , Balraj Singh, Lata Nain, Monica Joshi, Santosh Satya Journal of Basic Microbiology
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Bio - diesel waste as tailored organic fertilizer for improving yields and nutritive values of lycopercicum esculatum (tomato) (2013) Shivani Chaturvedi, Ashwani Kumar Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
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Comparative evaluation of raw and detoxified mahua seed cake for biogas production (2013) Aditi Gupta, Ashwani Kumar , Satyawati Sharma, V.K. Vijay. Applied Energy 102 1514 - 1521 .
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Effect of pre - shelling treatments on physical properties of nutmeg ( Myristica fragrans Houtt.). (2013) Prashant Pandharinath Said, Rama Chandra Pradhan, Ashwani Kumar Seed Technology Journal .
