Acinetobacter oleivorans IRS14 alleviates cold stress in wheat by regulating physiological and biochemical factors.

Aims: Climate change is responsible for extreme cold winters, causing a significant loss in crop yield and productivity due to chilling stress. This study aims to investigate the potential of psychrotrophic plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) strain to promote wheat growth under cold stress and explore the adaptive responses of wheat.

Methods And Results: Wheat seeds and seedlings were inoculated with the psychrotrophic strain IRS14 and the plants were cultivated for five weeks at 6°C ± 2°C.

Siwalik plant megafossil diversity in the Eastern Himalayas: A review.

The Eastern Himalayas are renowned for their high plant diversity. To understand how this modern botanical richness formed, it is critical to investigate past plant biodiversity preserved as fossils throughout the eastern Himalayan Siwalik succession (middle Miocene-early Pleistocene). Here, we present a summary of plant diversity records that document Neogene floristic and climate changes.

Unveiling the role of emerging metagenomics for the examination of hypersaline environments.

Hypersaline ecosystems are distributed all over the globe. They are subjected to poly-extreme stresses and are inhabited by halophilic microorganisms possessing multiple adaptations. The halophiles have many biotechnological applications such as nutrient supplements, antioxidant synthesis, salt tolerant enzyme production, osmolyte synthesis, biofuel production, electricity generation etc.

Discrete Molecular Aggregates Based on Zn and Sb Ions Displaying Efficient Antibacterial and Antioxidant Properties.

The reactions of [ZnCl(3,5-MePzH)(-BuPO)] with organostibonic acid in varying reaction conditions have been investigated. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies reveal the formation of [Zn(-ClCHSb)(O)(OCH)(-BuPO)(py)] (), [Zn(-ClCHSb)(Sb)(O)(-BuPOH)(-BuPO)(py)Cl] (), and [Zn(RSb)(O)(OCH)(-BuPO)(py)], where R = -ClCH () and R = -iPrCH (), respectively. Interestingly, in the synthesis of , complete dearylation of organoantimony moieties followed by C-F bond formation, a reduction from Sb (V) to Sb (III), and Sb···Cl weak intermolecular interactions have been observed.

"Sporotan" a new fluorescent stain for identifying cryptic spores of Rhodobacter johrii.

We propose a new fluorescent stain "sporotan" and staining protocol which aid in the identification of cryptic endospores which are otherwise mistaken as poly-β-hydroxyalkanoate granules.

Serological and molecular studies of a novel virus isolate causing yellow mosaic of Patchouli [Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth].

Here we have identified and characterized a devastating virus capable of inducing yellow mosaic on the leaves of Patchouli [Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth]. The diagnostic tools used were host range, transmission studies, cytopathology, electron microscopy, serology and partial coat protein (CP) gene sequencing. Evidence from biological, serological and sequence data suggested that the causal virus belonged to genus Potyvirus, family Potyviridae.