Ali Mohd Yatoo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of Kashmir

Soil nitrogen (N) transformations control N availability and plant production and pose environmental concerns when N is lost, raising issues such as soil acidification, water contamination, and climate change. Former studies suggested that soil N cycling is chiefly regulated by microbial activity; however, emerging evidence indicates that this regu...

Aquatic macrophytes play essential roles in freshwater ecosystems, providing services such as habitat creation, nutrient cycling, water quality improvement, and aquatic food supply. However, the overgrowth of aquatic macrophytes, especially free-floating macrophytes, negatively affects the environment, causing reduced oxygen levels, altered water f...

Phosphorus (P) is one of the essential macronutrients for plant metabolism. Regardless of its great quantity in inorganic and organic forms, it is generally inaccessible for plant utility due to bond formation with other ions present in soil. Due to the excessive use of agrochemicals, environmental issues have reached their peak. This has increased...

The environmental impacts of plastic have attracted the interest of the scientists, media, and policymakers, but the impact of microplastics (MPs) on our environment remains largely unknown. These novel pollutants are so widespread that the scientific community has defined the present historical epoch as “The Plasticene”. There is growing concern o...

Globally, more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) are generated each year, with that amount anticipated to reach around 3.5 billion tonnes by 2050. On a worldwide scale, food and green waste contribute the major proportion of MSW, which accounts for 44% of global waste, followed by recycling waste (38%), which includes plastic, gl...

Management of food waste is an alarming problem throughout the globe. Around 350 million tons of food waste are generated annually, of which about 60% come from households. The unscientific management of such a massive waste can have long-term deleterious effects on the environment, economy, and society. Landfills are the most common solution world...

COVID-19 firstly erupted in China in December 2019 as an epidemic that led to a global pandemic within a short span of time. Evaluating and examining patients and after laboratory analysis of respiratory samples, a novel coronavirus was labeled as the causative agent for this disease. Micro RNAs are defined as short non-coding segments of RNAs. Alm...

Transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) is a pleiotropic secretory cytokine exhibiting both cancer-inhibitory and promoting properties. It transmits its signals via Suppressor of Mother against Decapentaplegic (SMAD) and non-SMAD pathways and regulates cell proliferation, differentiation, invasion, migration, and apoptosis. In non-cancer and early-stag...

The phenolic compounds in plants can be used as antioxidants, functional polymers, attractants (flavonoids and carotenoids), ultraviolet light protectors (flavonoids), flash signals (salicylic acid), and phytoalexins, and protection chemicals. Phenolic compounds are important in defense reactions from a natural physiologic point of view, such as an...

Generalized crop-specific or regional blanket fertilizer recommendations are among the primary dilemmas for sustainable agriculture resulting in low fertilizer use efficiency, nutritional imbalance in crops, while raising economic and environmental concerns. Innovative fertilizer formulations with balanced nutrient ratios customized to the crop req...

Despite its limited exploration, Nymphaea mexicana Zucc. can be beneficial if pharmacology, isolation, and biological evaluation are given attention. It is an aquatic species that belongs to the family Nymphaeaceae. The thrust area of the work was the extraction, isolation, and biological evaluation of different extracts of the N. mexicana Zucc. pl...

In developing countries the larger portion (50–70%) of the solid waste generated is organic in nature. On a dry weight basis, 40–50% of the waste fraction is composed of cellulose material, 9–12% is hemicellulose, and 10–15% is lignin. The biological treatment technology of composting is widely looked upon as a clean, environment-friendly, cheap, a...

The municipal solid waste land filling results in generation of highly toxic leachate that has significant impacts on different components of environment. Various processes are available for the treatment of landfill leachate; however, biological treatment is considered as the environmentally friendly technology. In this context, the present study...

More than 70% of our planet is covered by extremely cold environments, nourishing a broad diversity of microbial life. Temperature is the most significant parameter that plays a key role in the distribution of microorganisms on our planet. Psychrophilic microorganisms are the most prominent inhabitants of the cold ecosystems, and they possess poten...

Citation: Tarfeen, N.; Nisa, K.I.; Hamid, B.; Bashir, Z.; Yatoo, A.M.; Dar, M.A.; Mohiddin, F.A.; Amin, Z.; Ahmad, R.A.; Sayyed, R.Z. Microbial

Himalayan ecosystem is characterized by its fragile climate with rich repositories of biodiversity. Waste collection and disposal are becoming increasingly difficult due to topographical variations. Aporrectodea caligenosa, a versatile psychrophillic soil dweller, is a useful biocatalyst with potent bio-augmented capability for waste treatment at l...

Vermicompost is an organic fertilizer rich in nutrients, beneficial microbes, and plant growth hormones that not only enhances the growth of crops but also contributes to the improvement in the physicochemical and biological properties of the soil. However, its lower nutrient content makes it less preferable among farmers and limits its applicabili...

Cyanobacteria dominate microbiota in ice-based habitats and contend with extreme fluctuation in temperature and lack of liquid water, which poses severe limitations (freezing and desiccation stress) to their growth and survival. Decline in carbon sinks would result in faster accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere and is expected to increase by 18.05...

Two million tonnes of pesticides are currently used globally to improve crop production, yet these pesticides induce adverse effects on soil quality and biodiversity. Moreover, less than 1% of pesticides reach the target pests, while the rest contaminate the surrounding environment. In particular, earthworms are exposed to pesticides and are thus a...

Vermicompost is an organic fertilizer rich in nutrients, beneficial microbes, and plant growth hormones that not only enhances the growth of crops but also contributes to the improvement of the physicochemical and biological properties of the soil. However, its lower nutrient content makes it less preferable among farmers and limits its applicabili...

Fish have great nutritive importance and represent an essential protein source for humans. However, because of the close interaction between the fish pathogens and the aquatic environment, fish culturing has raised issues related to fish health. In the aquatic environment bacteria are found ubiquitously and may cause huge mortality in wild as well...

The intensive use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural field has globally destroyed soil fertility, killed beneficial microorganisms, and also decreased natural resistance in crops, thereby making them more vulnerable to diseases besides affecting human health and the environment. To overcome these problems, it is very import...

Honey has been broadly recognized as a source of nourishment and medication by both old and new generations. It has been utilized by people to treat numerous illnesses through topical application for at least 2700 years, but recent researches have revealed the antiseptic and antimicrobial activities of honey. It has been seen as a powerful agent th...

Honey comes with a legendary history of being used as an indigenous medicine to cure a number of diseases. Honey is an essential source of phenolic molecules such as flavonoids and phenolic acids. The most abundant flavonoids present in honey include flavones, flavanones, and flavonols. Flavonoids show diverse activities such as non-inflammatory, a...

Honey and propolis are the honey bee-derived products with a long history of consumption by humans for health purposes. Both of these substances consist of a wide spectrum of vital compounds especially phenolics and flavonoids that are capable of exerting beneficial clinical effects on health. The antimicrobial, anti-metastatic, anticancer, anti-in...

Water has the ability to divert, transport, store, and recycle and is one of the most manageable natural resources. One of the most important issues that humanity is facing is the increasing global chemical pollution of natural water with largely unknown short- and long-term consequences for water life and human health. Due to the huge variability...

Nature provides a vast variety of benefits to human societies relying on the food, fibers, building material, uncontaminated water, fresh air, and regulation of climate, and each of these ecology services is dependent on soil, and their regulation is driven by the biodiversity of soil. More than 1/4 of living species of the world inhabit soils, and...

The novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, now called COVID-19 initially originated in Wuhan city of China and later spread across borders and infected more than two million people and killed over 2.9 lakh people all over the globe. This disease has been announced as pandemic by WHO. So far, there has been no...

Pesticides are the chemical compounds with toxic nature employed to destroy a range of harmful organisms. A number of pesticides have been utilized during the past decades with the purpose of protecting the crops from pests. Even if these pesticides tremendously increase the crop yield, simultaneously they pose grave threat to the stability of the...

Changes in life style, urbanization, intensive agricultural practices and population explosion have led to an enhanced build-up of organic wastes in the environment. These organic wastes can contribute negative impacts on the environment. The nutrient recovery from organic wastes such as kitchen waste, agricultural waste and municipal waste is an e...

Freshwater ecosystems are vital for global biodiversity and ecosystem services. Freshwater ecosystems are susceptible to the impacts of environmental change, which may cause irreversible damage to these ecosystems upon which huge amount of biodiversity and ecosystem services are dependent. Within the next few decades the climate change will have co...