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Overview

Badal C. Saha is affiliated with the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemical and engineering aspects related to biofuel production and microbial metabolic engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to fields such as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Engineering. Their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Nutrition and Dietetics, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology.

The main topics of their work encompass:

  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
  • Food composition and properties
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
  • Microbial metabolism and enzyme function

Badal C. Saha's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Production of xylitol from mixed sugars of xylose and arabinose without co-producing arabitol, 2020, Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
  • Optimization of xylitol production from xylose by a novel arabitol limited co-producing Barnettozyma populi NRRL Y-12728, 2020, Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology

Other publications featuring frequent co-authors associated with Saha are:

  • Global View of Biofuel Butanol and Economics of Its Production by Fermentation from Sweet Sorghum Bagasse, Food Waste, and Yellow Top Presscake: Application of Novel Technologies, 2020, Fermentation
  • Cellulosic Butanol Biorefinery: Production of Biobutanol from High Solid Loadings of Sweet Sorghum Bagasse-Simultaneous Saccharification, Fermentation, and Product Recovery, 2021, Fermentation
  • Efficient bioconversion of waste bread into 2-keto-d-gluconic acid by Pseudomonas reptilivora NRRL B-6, 2020, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery

The venues where Badal C. Saha has frequently published include:

  • Fermentation
  • Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
  • Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology
  • Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
  • Biomass

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Gregory J. Kennedy
  • Nasib Qureshi
  • Siqing Liu
  • Nancy N. Nichols
  • Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji

Best Publications

  • Hemicellulose bioconversion

    Badal C. Saha

  • Dilute acid pretreatment, enzymatic saccharification and fermentation of wheat straw to ethanol

    Badal C. Saha;Loren B. Iten;Michael A. Cotta;Y. Victor Wu

  • Production of butanol (a biofuel) from agricultural residues: Part I – Use of barley straw hydrolysate☆

    Nasib Qureshi;Badal C. Saha;Bruce Dien;Ronald E. Hector

  • Dilute Acid Pretreatment, Enzymatic Saccharification, and Fermentation of Rice Hulls to Ethanol†

    Badal C. Saha;Loren B. Iten;Michael A. Cotta;Y. Victor Wu

  • Butanol production from wheat straw hydrolysate using Clostridium beijerinckii

    Nasib Qureshi;Badal C. Saha;Michael A. Cotta

  • α-l-Arabinofuranosidases: biochemistry, molecular biology and application in biotechnology

    Badal C Saha

  • Butanol production from wheat straw by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation using Clostridium beijerinckii: Part II—Fed-batch fermentation

    Nasib Qureshi;Badal C. Saha;Michael A. Cotta

  • Production of butanol (a biofuel) from agricultural residues: Part II – Use of corn stover and switchgrass hydrolysates☆

    Nasib Qureshi;Badal C. Saha;Ronald E. Hector;Bruce Dien

  • Ethanol production from alkaline peroxide pretreated enzymatically saccharified wheat straw.

    Badal C. Saha;Michael A. Cotta

  • Lime pretreatment, enzymatic saccharification and fermentation of rice hulls to ethanol

    Badal C. Saha;Michael A. Cotta

  • Production, purification, and characterization of a highly glucose-tolerant novel beta-glucosidase from Candida peltata.

    B C Saha;R J Bothast

  • Debittering of protein hydrolyzates.

    Badal C Saha;Kiyoshi Hayashi

  • Pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification of corn fiber.

    Badal C. Saha;Rodney J. Bothast

  • Enzymatic saccharification and fermentation of alkaline peroxide pretreated rice hulls to ethanol

    Badal C. Saha;Michael A. Cotta

  • Biotechnological production of mannitol and its applications

    Badal C. Saha;F. Michael Racine

  • Lignocellulose biodegradation and applications in biotechnology

    Badal C. Saha

  • Production, purification and properties of endoglucanase from a newly isolated strain of Mucor circinelloides

    Badal C. Saha

  • Butanol production from corn fiber xylan using Clostridium acetobutylicum.

    Nasib Qureshi;Xin-Liang Li;Stephen Hughes;Badal C. Saha

  • Hydrothermal pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification of corn stover for efficient ethanol production

    Badal C. Saha;Tsuyoshi Yoshida;Tsuyoshi Yoshida;Michael A. Cotta;Kenji Sonomoto

  • Biological pretreatment of corn stover with white-rot fungus for improved enzymatic hydrolysis

    Badal C. Saha;Nasib Qureshi;Gregory J. Kennedy;Michael A. Cotta

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Cotta
Michael A. Cotta National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Nasib Qureshi
Nasib Qureshi US Department of Agriculture
Rodney J. Bothast
Rodney J. Bothast National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Bruce S. Dien
Bruce S. Dien National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Bryan R. Moser
Bryan R. Moser National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Cletus P. Kurtzman
Cletus P. Kurtzman National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Joshua LaBaer
Joshua LaBaer Arizona State University
Mark A. Berhow
Mark A. Berhow United States Department of Agriculture
Gautam Sarath
Gautam Sarath Agricultural Research Service
Kenji Sonomoto
Kenji Sonomoto Kyushu University

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