Akash Singh, Banaras Hindu University In the developing world, rice (Oryza sativa) is the main nutritional crop and the staple food of more than half the population of the world. This is an excellent source of complex carbohydrates, rich in nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Rice supplies 21% of the total human energy per capita and […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Background Based on historical evidence, the epidemics of plant diseases have been quite destructive and continue to scar global well-being. Most of these epidemics came into existence due to international transactions and merchandising of plant materials which eventually takes the face of species declination. Hymenoscyphus fraxineus is an invasive fungus […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University “The best way to predict future is to create it.” – Buckminster Fuller. This saying holds power in 2021 as the society along with researchers and scientists all around various nations pave the way to build towards a green sustainable future with zero waste. From Rio Summit 2012, till now, scientists […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming a greater threat to human health day by day, necessitating the development of new antibiotics. Bacteriophages and their potential as antibacterial agents to combat pathogenic bacteria have sparked renewed interest. This is largely due to the phage’s ability to cause a cellular breakdown in the bacterial […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata The production of cereal crops is deeply threatened, throughout the world by seed-borne bacterial diseases. Locally occurring disease resistance remains unclear in different crops. In this study conducted by Matsumoto et. al, it has been observed that under the same pathogen pressure, rice plants of the same cultivar can be distinguished […]
