Assessment of human health risks posed by toxic heavy metals in Tilapia fish () from the Cauvery River, India.

Heavy metal toxicity is a serious threat to human health due to its bioaccumulation, biomagnification, and persistent nature in the environment including aquatic systems. In the recent past, heavy metal contamination in the environment has occurred due to various anthropogenic sources. The concentration of potentially toxic heavy metals was determined by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy in Tilapia (), a highly farmed and consumed fish species in southern parts of India.

Microbiome transition mediated plant immune response to (Ellis & Martin) Jones & Grout infection in tomato ( L.).

(Ellis & Martin) Jones & Grout, causing early blight infection in crops, is a growing threat influencing sustainable crop production. Understanding the variation in the foliar microbiome, particularly the bacterial community during pathogenesis, can provide critical information on host-pathogen interactions, highlighting the host immune response during pathogen invasion. In the present study, early blight (EB) infection was artificially induced in tomato leaves, and the transition in the foliar bacterial community from healthy leaf tissue to infected leaves was analyzed.

Cross-Species Insights into PR Proteins: A Comprehensive Study of , , and .

Unlabelled: This study provides a comprehensive analysis of pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins, focusing on PR1, PR5, and PR10, in three plant species: (At), (Sl), and (St). We investigated various physico-chemical properties, including protein length, molecular weight, isoelectric point (pI), hydrophobicity, and structural characteristics, such as RMSD, using state-of-the-art tools like AlphaFold and PyMOL. Our analysis found that the SlPR10-StPR10 protein pair had the highest sequence identity (80.

PTS8: a rare endophyte of with salient antagonism against multidrug-resistant pathogens.

Introduction: Endophytes refer to microorganisms residing within the endosphere of plants, particularly perennials, without inflicting noticeable injury or inducing obvious morphological variations to their host plant or host organism. Endophytic fungi, although often overlooked microorganisms, have garnered interest due to their significant biological diversity and ability to produce novel pharmacological substances.

Methods: In this study, fourteen endophytic fungi retrieved were from the stem of the perennial plant of the Asparagaceae family.

Endophytic fungi of mediated targeting of Multi-Drug resistant human pathogens.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the most serious worldwide public health issues of the twenty-first century. The expeditious rise of AMR has urged the development of new, natural effective therapeutic strategies against drug-resistant pathogens. Endophytic fungi, which inhabit distinctive environments like endosymbiotic relationships with plants, are gaining interest as alternative reservoirs for novel compounds that exhibit a broad range of chemical diversity and unique modes of action by releasing a variety of secondary metabolites with antimicrobial properties.