Biography

Mr. Muhammad Ashfaque is currently working as Research Associates in ICAR Networking project in Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research Lucknow. His PhD is in process from Integral University, Lucknow, India. His past area of work includes the Research Associates and senior Research Fellow in an ICAR Networking Project and also completed his project as a part of M.Sc programme in the Microbiology Laboratory in Central Institute for Subtropical horticulture Lucknow. He has published 33 review articles and 10 research papers. He wrote 2 book chapters of current status of IPR issues in Horticulture in the book name “Protecting Intellectual Property in Life Sciences”. Mr. Muhammad Ashfaque attended the number of seminars/symposium, workshop, classes and training programmes. During his career he received an “appreciation letter” from director of Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research Lucknow for “Outstanding Performance”. Mr. M. Ashfaque awarded as top honor in “Marketing skills”. He received a number of awards for oral presentation, art competition, poster papers and also awarded in the competition during Hindi Pakhwara under different categories. He is also applied for two patents.

Area of Interest:

Environmental Sciences

100%

Fermentation Technology

62%

Value Addition

90%

Protein Purification

75%

Environmental Biology

55%

Research Publications in Numbers

Books
3

Chapters
1

Articles
13

Abstracts
1

Selected Publications

Ashfaque, M., S. Solomon and N. Pathak, 2016. Kinetic study of immobilized cellobiase produced from immobilized wild-type Trichoderma longibrachiatum. Sugar Tech, 18: 340-346.
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Solomon, S., R. Jain, A. Chandra, S.K. Shukla and R.J. Lal et al., 2014. Sugarcane: A Voyage from Sett to Sweetener. Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow, India, Pages: 111.
Ashfaque, M., S. Solomon and N. Pathak, 2014. Optimization of pretreatment and fermentation conditions for production of extracellular cellulase complex using sugarcane bagasse. Bioinformation, 10: 606-610.
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Pandey, A., M. Ashfaque and R.K. Mishra, 2013. In vitro antifungal activity of Trichoderma spp. against Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and their molecular characterization. Plant Arch., 13: 51-58.
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Ashfaque, M., S. Solomon and N. Pathak, 2013. Utilization of sugarcane baggase as substrate for production of extracellular CMCase and Cellulobiase from Trichoderma sp. Online Int. J. Biosolut., 3: 121-128.
Kumar, D., M. Ashfaque, M. Muthukumar, M. Singh and N. Garg, 2012. Production and characterization of carboxymethyl cellulase from Paenibacillus polymyxa using mango peel as substrate. J. Environ. Biol., 33: 81-84.
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Khan, D.N., P. Yadav, M. Ashfaque and N. Garg, 2012. Study of osmotolerant yeast isolated from spoilde aonla segments in syrup. J. Eco-Friendly Agric., 7: 191-194.
Prakash, B., A.K. Sharma, M. Ashfaque and S. Srivastava, 2011. Improving agricultural marketing: A pre-requisite for ensuring food security of the country. Indian J. Agric. Market., 25: 150-161.
Pandey, A., M. Ashfaque, D. Arya, A. Saxena, S. Choudhary and U.K. Chauhan, 2011. Lipid lowering and antioxidant activity of Terminalia arjuna in hyperlipemic rats. Int. J. Biotechnol. Biochem., 7: 133-145.
Pandey, A., M. Kamle, L.P. Yadava, M. Muthukumar and P. Kumar et al., 2010. Genetically modified food: Its uses, future prospects and safety assessments. Biotechnology, 9: 444-458.
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Neelima, G. and A. Mohammad, 2010. Mango peel as substrate for production of extra cellular polygalacturonase from Aspergillus fumigatus. Indian J. Horticult., 67: 140-143.
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Garg, N., M. Ashfaque and P. Yadav, 2007. Alcohal kinvan: Fal sanrakshan ki upyogi vidha. Udyan Rashmi, 8: 10-14.