Attributions

Many individuals and institutions contributed to our project, who are acknowledged below:

Team formation and mentoring

Prof. Arvind Lali, Dr. Shalini Deb and Dr. Shamlan Reshamwala

Team registration

Special thanks to Preeti Lali, CEO, Vidyan BioCommerce Pvt. Ltd.

Hosting the team

DBT-ICT Centre for Energy Biosciences

Wet lab activities

Marwan Malik, Bhargav Patel, Dr. Shamlan Reshamwala and Dr. Shalini Deb,

Ms. Rummana Khan of Kelkar Scientific Research Centre, Mumbai where plant cultivation and root exudate extraction was outsourced

Parts construction

Marwan Malik and Dr. Shamlan Reshamwala

InterLab study

Bhargav Patel and Dr. Shalini Deb

Financial support

Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India

Aarti Industries Pvt. Ltd. (thanks to Akshay Shah), Institute of Chemical Technology and Mokashi Endowment Fund

Consumables

DBT-ICT Centre for Energy Biosciences, ICT TEQIP (thanks to Gauri Bhatkhande)

Human Practices

Ninad Kumbhojkar, Atharva Chikhalikar and Apoorva Pardeshi

Outreach activities and public engagement

Ninad Kumbhojkar, Atharva Chikhalikar, Bhargav Patel, Marwan Malik and Supriya Prakash

Collaborations

Marwan Malik, Ninad Kumbhojkar, Atharva Chikhalikar, Bhargav Patel, Supriya Prakash and Dr. Shalini Deb

Social media

Bhargav Patel and Dr. Shalini Deb

BBrickIt (software)

Dr. Shamlan Reshamwala and Dr. Shalini Deb for ideation and guidance; Supriya Prakash and Ninad Kumbhojkar for implementation

Modelling

Bhargav Patel, Vikrant Bansode

Wiki design

Supriya Prakash and Atharva Chikhalikar