Plant-Based Bioactive Compounds and Food Ingredients

Junaid Ahmad Malik, PhD, is a Lecturer with the Department of Zoology at Government Degree College, Bijbehara, Kashmir, India. His areas of interest are ecology, soil macrofauna, wildlife biology, conservation biology, etc. Dr. Malik has published research articles and technical papers and authored and edited books, book chapters, conference papers, and popular editorial articles. He also serves as an editor and reviewer for several journals. He has participated in several state, national, and international conferences, seminars, workshops, and symposia.

Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, was formerly Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering at the College of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus. He was proclaimed as the "Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico for the twentieth century" by the ASABE, Puerto Rico Section, for his pioneering work on micro irrigation, evapotranspiration, agroclimatology, and soil and water engineering. A prolific author and editor, he has written more than 200 journal articles and several textbooks and has edited over 100 books.

Preeti Birwal, PhD, is a Scientist in the Department of Processing and Food Engineering at the College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology at Punjab Agricultural University, India. Her work is on nonthermal food preservation, fermented beverages, food packaging, and technology of milletbased beer. She was a resource person on increasing farmers' income through dairy technology training, sponsored by the Directorate of Extension, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India. She has published research papers, book chapters, conference papers, and coedited several books.

Ritesh Balaso Watharkar, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the College of Agriculture and Food Business Management at MIT-ADT University, Maharashtra, India. He was a Senior Research Fellow under a funded project by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, New Delhi, and Assistant Professor at K.K. Wagh Food Tech College and at Shramshakti College of Food Technology, affiliated by Mahatma Phule Agricultural University. He was a senior research fellow under the UNESCO/China Great Wall Fellowship Program and worked at the School of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science at Zhejiang University, China.