Kugen Permaul

Head of Department
Biotechnology and Food Technology
Durban University of Technology
South Africa

Professor General Science
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 Intrest

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.

List of Publications
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
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
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
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 .
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 .

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