Publications by authors named "Jinal Hardik Naik"

Among the various biotic factors that disrupt crop yield, Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae (Xoo) is the most ruinous microbe of rice and causes bacterial leaf blight (BLB) disease. The present study focused on the utilization of copper nanoparticles (Cu-NPs) to control BLB. The copper nanosuspension (259.

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Worldwide accumulation of e-waste poses a major threat to environmental health. However, printed circuit boards contain precious metals, such as gold, and silver, and also contain micronutrient metal elements, such as Fe, Cu, Zn, etc. Therefore, the present study investigated the effects of e-waste-tolerant bacteria (ETB) on promoting plant growth in e-waste-amended soils and mobilizing trace metals into the plants.

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Soil contamination by heavy metals is one of the major abiotic stresses that cause retarded plant growth and low productivity. Among the heavy metals, excessive accumulations of zinc (Zn) cause toxicity to plants. The toxicity caused by Zn could be managed by application of Zn-tolerant plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria.

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For sustainable agriculture in saline soil, extensive exploitation of salt-tolerant plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria and other symbiotic bacteria is required. This study was carried out to evaluate the efficiency of native salt-tolerant rice rhizobacteria for plant growth promotion under salt stress. A total of 188 bacteria were screened for assessing salt-tolerant capacity and nine isolates tolerating 12% NaCl (w/v) concentration were selected.

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Plants have their own defense mechanisms such as induced systemic resistance (ISR) and systemic-acquired resistance. Bacillus spp. are familiar biocontrol agents that trigger ISR against various phytopathogens by eliciting various metabolites and producing defense enzyme in the host plant.

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In this study, medicinal plant (Solanum surattense)-associated bacteria were isolated and their extracellular secondary metabolites were extracted. Dual-plate application of crude secondary metabolites proved that SSL2I and SSL5 had a good inhibitory activity against Ralstonia solanacearum. These biocontrol bacteria were identified as Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus velezensis by 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis.

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In this study, Cu-tolerant PGP bacteria were isolated from the contaminated soils of Tapi (Surat, Gujarat, India). From a set of 118 bacteria isolated from the contaminated soil, the isolate RBTS7 was found to be efficient in tolerating 0.3 g (w/v) Cu.

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In this study, chromium (Cr)-tolerant bacteria were test for their efficiency in alleviating Cr stress in Cicer arietinum plants. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene analysis, the isolates were identified belonging to genus Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Bacillus thuringiensis B. cereus, and B.

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Iron (Fe) is one of the essential micronutrients for all living organisms. Despite its abundance in most of the contaminated soil, it is usually in unavailable forms. The unavailable form of Fe could be mobilized to plants by the use of microorganisms.

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This study explores the antimicrobial properties of bioactive secondary metabolites extracted from the medicinal plant ()-associated strain SSL2. The secondary metabolites were extracted from (SSL2) using ethyl acetate, acetone, butanol, chloroform and methanol solvents. The crude extract was tested against two wilt causing pathogens: and .

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To elucidate the functional diversity of hot spring bacteria, 123 bacteria were isolated and screened for evaluating their multifunctional plant growth promoting (PGP) properties. The antagonistic activity against different phytopathogens showed the presence of a high amount of biocontrol bacteria in the hot springs. During screening for PGP properties, 61.

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