Publications by authors named "Sandip K Basak"
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- Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is crucial for global nitrogen contributions, with symbiotic BNF from plants accounting for about 56% and free-living nitrogen fixers (FLNF) contributing 22-45%.
- This study investigated the diversity and functionality of FLNFs in the Indian Sundarbans, employing both cultivation-dependent and independent methods to analyze 235 bacterial isolates from mangrove environments.
- The results indicate a predominance of Gammaproteobacteria and Firmicutes, suggesting that these FLNFs are linked to various processes like iron oxidation and nutrient solubilization, highlighting their importance in overcoming environmental stresses in estuarine habitats.
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- Most global mangrove restoration efforts focus on mono-species plantations, often lacking ecological principles, which leads to a low success rate in these initiatives.
- Researchers tested an innovative restoration framework for degraded mangrove ecosystems in the Indian Sundarbans, incorporating site-specific strategies and comparing them to conventional methods.
- This study used advanced statistical analyses to evaluate the success of restoration efforts, demonstrating that a diverse ecological approach has a higher potential for restoring functions and sustainability compared to single-species practices.
Detection of a bibenzyl core scaffold in 28 common mangrove and associate species of the Indian Sundarbans: potential signature molecule for mangrove salinity stress acclimation.
Front Plant Sci
January 2024
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- * These compounds are produced through specific branches of the phenylpropanoid biosynthetic pathway, particularly in response to environmental stressors like high salinity, which affects species like mangroves known for their adaptability to extreme conditions.
- * Recent research identified a core bibenzyl scaffold in 28 mangrove and related species from the Indian Sundarbans, suggesting a potential role in detoxifying reactive oxygen species and aiding in the plants’ metabolic processes under salinity stress.
Sundarbans mangrove forest, the world's largest continuous mangrove forests expanding across India and Bangladesh, in recent times, is immensely threatened by degradation stress due to natural stressors and anthropogenic disturbances. The degradation across the 19 mangrove forests in Indian Sundarbans was evaluated by eight environmental criteria typical to mangrove ecosystem. In an attempt to find competent predictors for mangrove ecosystem degradation, key eco-physiological resilience trait complex specific for mangroves from 4922 individuals for physiological analyses with gene expression and 603 individuals for leaf tissue distributions from 16 mangroves and 15 associate species was assessed along the degradation gradient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genus Lantana has many species complexes, and L. camara is one of the aggressive alien weedy species complexes; species delimitation in these complexes is a nightmare for taxonomists. We examined the diversity in the chemical composition of foliar essential oils among morphotypes of Lantana species complexes inhabiting the same ecological gradient, and its taxonomic and ecological significance.
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