Megha Saha, Amity University Kolkata Brief Highlighted in this writeup is a paper that discusses the physiological responses and genetic diversity found among various aromatic short-grain rice varieties in the Northern Eastern Ghats region of India (Behera et al., 2023). The ever-expanding population’s consumption demands necessitated a substantial increase in rice production. However, adverse changes […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University Rice is one of the most popular staple crops with about half of the world population consuming it every day. Rice unfortunately is sensitive to salt especially the seedling and reproductive stage as compared to other developmental stages. Global rice production is threatened due to reduced yield […]
Srabani Roy Chowdhury (MAKAUT, WB) Plants possess many mechanisms to safeguard themselves from different pathogenic infections. There is a two-tiered system deployed by plants, as their defense response. They are- Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern (PAMP) triggered immunity (also called PTI). It is considered to be a weak immune response, brought into action by plasma membrane-localized pattern […]
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 […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University What is Cholera? Cholera is a diarrheal sickness caused by the toxigenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae infecting the intestine. Each year, an estimated 2.9 million cases and 95,000 deaths occur in the population worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.3 million to 4 million people are infected with cholera each year, […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Out of the multiple essential macronutrients that help the living organisms at every step of their survival, Phosphorus (P) is ranked of paramount importance. Mainly due to its role in several biomolecules like the nucleic acids, phospholipid membrane, an important factor for the working of the enzymes, and various energy-rich […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata There has always been a lot of debates surrounding vegan food. While some vegans at times drink milk, others show complete avoidance towards any kind of milk products including dairy as well. This might at times raise questions on the diet chart followed by the vegans. It is surely good […]
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 […]
-Soumyadeep Ghosh, Team bioXone The rice, wheat, vegetables, and fruits we consume today; are not the same that we or our parents used to consume a few decades ago from now. Indeed they all are mostly genetically modified to meet the desirable aspects of quantitative and qualitative production. Genetical modifications are indeed a boon to […]
