Cresha Gracy Nadar has newly joined the Centre for Crop Science at QAAFI as a Postdoctoral Research fellow. Cresha has an engineering background in the field of Biotechnology and has pursued a Ph.D. in the field of Bioprocessing from IIT Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia. Her Ph.D. research was about developing a novel biorefinery process from fruit processing waste and performing sustainability assessment using life cycle analysis. At QAAFI, Cresha is further exploring the environmental footprint assessment in the fields of food processing, biotechnology and other agriculture domains.
Journal Article: Waste to protein: a systematic review of a century of advancement in microbial fermentation of agro-industrial byproducts
Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Fletcher, Andrew, Moreira, Bruno Rafael de Almeida, Hine, Damian and Yadav, Sudhir (2024). Waste to protein: a systematic review of a century of advancement in microbial fermentation of agro-industrial byproducts. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 23 (4) e13375, 1-18. doi: 10.1111/1541-4337.13375
Journal Article: Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste
Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Arora, Amit and Shastri, Yogendra (2022). Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste. ACS Engineering Au, 2 (2), 61-74. doi: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.1c00025
Journal Article: Green and clean process to obtain low degree of polymerisation xylooligosaccharides from almond shell
Singh, Ramkrishna D., Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Muir, Jane and Arora, Amit (2019). Green and clean process to obtain low degree of polymerisation xylooligosaccharides from almond shell. Journal of Cleaner Production, 241 118237. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118237
Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Fletcher, Andrew, Moreira, Bruno Rafael de Almeida, Hine, Damian and Yadav, Sudhir (2024). Waste to protein: a systematic review of a century of advancement in microbial fermentation of agro-industrial byproducts. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 23 (4) e13375, 1-18. doi: 10.1111/1541-4337.13375
Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste
Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Arora, Amit and Shastri, Yogendra (2022). Sustainability challenges and opportunities in pectin extraction from fruit waste. ACS Engineering Au, 2 (2), 61-74. doi: 10.1021/acsengineeringau.1c00025
Singh, Ramkrishna D., Nadar, Cresha Gracy, Muir, Jane and Arora, Amit (2019). Green and clean process to obtain low degree of polymerisation xylooligosaccharides from almond shell. Journal of Cleaner Production, 241 118237. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118237