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

Hosting the team

DBT-ICT Centre for Energy Biosciences

Wet lab activities

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

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

Parts construction

Dr. Shamlan Reshamwala and Marwan Malik

InterLab study

Dr. Shalini Deb and Bhargav Patel

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

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

Social media

Dr. Shalini Deb and Bhargav Patel

BBrickIt (software)

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

Wiki design

Supriya Prakash and Atharva Chikhalikar