Ashwani Kumar

University of Rajasthan · Department of Botany

Climate change resulting in increasing global warming and unpredictable rain patterns highlights the development of climate resilient crops. Chloroplasts are vital organelles in plant cells responsible for photosynthesis, the process by which light energy is converted into chemical energy. Understanding the proteome of chloroplasts is crucial for u...

Molecular markers, Genome-Wide association studies, and Quantitative trait locus mapping accelerate breeding, in which plant genetic transformation and stable regeneration protocols, including embryo rescue and somaclonal variation, are highlighted. Omics insights into stress management, yield improvement, genes enhance and crop performance. Plant-...

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This book is a collection of information about applying CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing in plants. The main focus of this book is to address the recent advances and future prospects of CRISPR-Cas technology in crops. Genome editing technology is important because it can be used to improve plant traits. The earlier genome-engineering tools, z...

Plants are vulnerable to phytopathogens including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, which result in significant financial losses (both before and after harvest) and risk the security of the global food supply. Climate change has been rapidly causing aggravation of plant disease impacts, with existing pathogens showing pandemic behavior making the devel...

The human population is growing rapidly and is projected to reach 10 billion by 2055 according to The World Bank. However, limited cultivable land, climate change, and plant diseases are impeding crop yield improvement necessary to feed the growing population. This presents a grand challenge for breeders and farmers who must sustain production to a...

Antimicrobial resistance has spread rapidly over the world as a result of the overuse and abuse of antibiotics in both humans and animals. The global health and safety of humans is threatened by a serious crisis of antibiotic resistance. To control infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, new strategies are urgently needed. One prom...

CRISPR-Cas (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated [Cas]) is a rapidly evolving RNA-mediated adaptive immune system that protects bacteria and archaea against invading genetic elements. This system has been harnessed for genome engineering in animals, plants, and microbes, enabling precise and efficient modifica...

CRISPR-Cas has wide applications in preclinical and clinical research, biomedicine, and agriculture. The use of genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas, which can be used to alter diverse genomes of both plants and animals with accuracy and high efficiency, has legal and ethical issues to be attended due to its potential unintended impacts on gene drive sys...

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) established by the UN, there is a need to produce 15–20% more food from recent trends of production. Biotechnological advances in the late twentieth century paved the path for the creation of genetically engineered crop species to enhance agricultural production. Recently programmable gene editi...

By 2050, there will be 9.7 billion people on the planet, up from 7.3 billion now. Increasing population and decreasing agricultural land requires urgent attention for crop improvement in terms of quantity and quality. Production of tropical crops is highly risky due to pest outbreaks and increased abiotic pressures brought on by climate change. Nut...

Over the years, Plant Cell and Tissue Culture has developed as an important tool in Biotechnology: Basics and Its Applications. CRISPR-Cas is a revolutionary tech nology that enables precise and efficient genome editing in various organisms. It has been hailed as the “genetic scissors” that can cut and paste DNA sequences at any desired locus in...

This book is a collection of information about applying CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing in plants. The main focus of this book is to address the recent advances and future prospects of CRISPR-Cas technology in crops. Genome editing technology is important because it can be used to improve plant traits. The earlier genome-engineering tools, zi...

This book is a collection of information about applying CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing in plants. The main focus of this book is to address the recent advances and future prospects of CRISPR-Cas technology in crops. Genome editing technology is important because it can be used to improve plant traits. The earlier genome-engineering tools, zi...

Abstract The FAO, UN (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) declared the year 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (http://www.fao.org/plant-health-2020/about/en/). They mentioned 40% of global food loss annually due to plant pathogens and pests. Biotechnological innovations help in understanding the host parasite inter...

EDITORIAL 39(3) With this last issue of 2023 [(39) 3] Prints family and myself at Chief editor acknowledge the continued support of our authors and tireless efforts of our reviewers for their prompt responses. has made this JSPR from twice a year to thrice a year, very popular journal among plant science researchers across the country. Our team tak...

Origin of Ferns and phylogeny Ordovician period roughly 480 Mya origin of embryophytes origin. Vascular plants appeared around 410 million years ago Only two survived (Soltis et al. 1999). Lycophytes Euphyllophytes (ferns and seed plants) Molecular and fossil evidence places the origin of ferns at around 400 Ma, more than 200 Myr before the appe...

Professor P C Trivedi Award of editorial excellence of Indian Botanical Society given to Professor Ashwani Kumar

NET ZERO ROADMAP: A GLOBAL PATHWAY TO KEEP THE 1.5 °C: GLOBAL BIOFUELS ALLIANCE LED BY INDIA AT G20. Ashwani Kumar Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Germany), Former Head of the Department of Botany and Biotechnology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004. India Email: ashwanikumar214@gmail.com Mobile 8209237459 https://www.researchgate.net/profile...

This extreme month has pushed 2023 into the dubious honor of first place – on track to be the warmest year and around 1.4°C above preindustrial (1850-1900), average temperatures. The Arctic average sea ice extent for September reached its sixth lowest annual minimum at about 4.8 million km2, 18% below the 1991-2020 average for September. Promotin...

Climate change is long term fluctuation in temperature, precipitation, wind and all other aspects of Earth’s climate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UNEP body formed under WMO is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. For the first time in human history, concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2),...

Ferns are a diverse lineage of vascular plants that occupy a wide range of ecological niches, and are an important part of the world's land flora. Many ferns have unsually large chromosome numbers, presumably due to whole-genome duplications (WGDs) that occurred near the end of the Cretaceous (~145-66 Mya). The homosporous fern Ophioglossum reticul...

Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) is an annual forage legume and an important aromatic medicinal plant that is commercially used as spices in major parts of the world. The plant is known for its superior qualities of pharmaceutically and nutraceutically rich in several phytochemicals including several important complex carbohydrates, amino a...

The use of fossil fuels results in rising CO2 and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, causing global temperature rise and climate change that will negatively impact human health, the food supply, and eventually worsen hunger and misery.Life on earth appeared about 3.5 billion years ago. During evolution, the first photosynthetically active life d...

Gloriosa superba Linn (family Colchicaceae) is a tendril climber with cylindrical and V or L shaped rhizomes that has received much attention due to its ancient pharmacological uses and being a rich source of colchicine. The pharmacognostical profile of leaf, stem and rhizome were analysed to assure the grade of raw material in the proposed investi...

From Chief Editor’s Desk. We are proud to complete the publication of Vol. 12, Issue 2, May-August 2023 issue in time and congratulate our contributors and Ms. Reema Bagga and team from Diva Publications. As always, we have an array of articles and reviews. Let us not forget COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, which is constantly evolving. “The latest...

COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, is constantly evolving. The latest variant of concern (VOC) is Omicron (PANGO lineage B.1.1). Omicron has branched into several highly transmissible and immune-evasive subvariants through mutations and recombination. One subvariant, XBB.1.5, was first observed in New York, USA during October 2022. The Omicron XBB.1.5...

Plant latex is a sap that is exuded from damaged vein. It is kept in a tissue specialized in exuding latex called laticifer and is kept inside laticifer cells. It works as an efficient defence system against herbivorous insects. Laticifer is a general term applied to a large and heterogenous group of cell types. In Pedilanthus tithymaloides the lat...

Beat Plastics by Bioplastics from Renewable Biomass for Environment Protection.

The Journal of Plant Science Research FORUM FOR THE PROMOTION OF PLANT SCIENCE RESEARCH VOLUME 39 NUMBER 1, 2023 is out now

Plastic pollution has resulted in the death of millions of seabirds and aquatic animals (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-021-01334-4). Several efforts are being made for biodegradation of different types of PE during past decades using bacteria, fungi and insects (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.107991)Biopolymers are very favorable materi...

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) CRISPR-Cas is a rapidly evolving RNA-mediated adaptive immune system that protects bacteria and archaea against invading genetic elements. This system has been harnessed for genome engineering in animals, plants and microbials, enabling precise and efficient modifica...

The human population is growing rapidly and is projected to reach 10 billion by 2055 according to The World Bank. However, limited cultivable land, climate change and plant diseases are impeding crop yield improvement necessary to feed the growing population. This presents a grand challenge for breeders and farmers who must sustain production to ac...

ISSN : 0970-2539 e-ISSN : 0976-3880 Editor-in-Chief Ashwani Kumar President P. C. Trivedi The Journal of Plant Science Research FORUM FOR THE PROMOTION OF PLANT SCIENCE RESEARCH VOLUME 38 NUMBER 2, 2022

Global warming has increased the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather and climate events, and will continue to increase if no mitigation strategies are undertaken urgently. Climate change poses unprecedented threats to human health by impacts on food and water security. The increasing air pollution is promoting diseases. Water pollution...

Bioplastics are a type of plastic made from renewable resources, such as plants, renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable fats and oils, corn starch, pea starch, and other plant-based materials, instead of petroleum. They can be produced using various methods, such as fermentation or chemical conversion of plant oils. Bioplastics can be classif...

Following discovery of Mojica from Spain on unusual loci include fragments of foreign DNA and are, in fact, a part of the immune system of bacteria and archaea to development of CRISPR Cas technology and award of Nobel Prize to Doudna and Charpentier for the development of a method for genome editing: A review of CRISPR development and its applicat...

Environment is the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc. Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area Climate change is attributed largely to the increased levels of gree...

Gloriosa superba Linn (family Colchicaceae) is a tendril climber with cylindrical and V or L shaped rhizomes that has received much attention due to its ancient pharmacological uses and being a rich source of colchicine. The pharmacognostical profile of leaf, stem and rhizome were analysed to assure the grade of raw material in the proposed investi...

PEP carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31), which catalyzes the irreversible carboxylation of phosphoenolpyruvate, plays an essential role in C4 carbon assimilation and organic acid metabolism. Young shoots of resistant maize genotypes showed an increase in PEP-carboxylase carboxylase activity activity during the first phase of salt stress according according t...

Biomass contributes a significant share of global primary energy consumption and its importance is likely to increase in future world energy scenarios. Current biomass use, although not sustainable in some cases, replaces fossil fuel consumption and results in avoided CO 2 emissions, representing about 2.7 to 8.8 % of 1998 anthropogenic CO 2 emissi...

Celebrating the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research to Govindjee, who Hails from Allahabad in Letter to editor by Arthur Nonomura and Ashwani Kumar (this volume) and related articles on “Mr Photosynthesis” marked the closing issue of our IJLS volume 11 marked the celebrations of 90th birthday of G...

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear, negatively charged polysaccharides composed of repeating disaccharide units of uronic acid and amino sugars. The luminal surface of the bladder epithelium is coated with a GAG layer. These urothelial GAGs are thought to provide a protective barrier and serve as a potential interaction site with the urinary micr...

Environment consciousness and Climate change Climate change is causing-extreme weather-related incidents including very high and low temperatures, excessive rainfall, longest dry period, frequent cyclones and Tornedos, and deaths due to weather-related disasters. Sea level rise are jeopardizing the quality of our food supplies. The International...

In 2022, Govindjee, already known to the World as 'Mister Photosynthesis of the 21st Century', was recognised with one of the highest honours of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research-its lifetime achievement award. We briefly describe and celebrate it here.

Govindjee is a prolific and influential writer in the arena of oxygenic photosynthesis. He is internationally revered as one of the most prominent plant scientists of the 21st century, who enhanced 'Emerson Enhancement'. He is widely regarded for extensive collaborations with hundreds of scientists from around the World and moreover, his solely aut...

Application of Plant tissue culture in biotechnological innovations

Most of the aquatics are very fast growing/reproducing and a good crop may be obtained free of cost, since they require no tillage, fertilizer, seeds etc. and may play an important role in the economic development of the area. The importance of subject initiated the authors to evaluate the present status and future perspectives for making aquatic w...

Jour Pl Sci Res 38 (1) 2022 Climate Change and Health and Ayush: Curcuma and COVID-19 Heat waves hit both poles at once. Planet earth is warming and climate change is affecting. “Temperature records were smashed in Antarctica last week: one weather station recorded temperatures that were 40! above normal. At the same time, it is 30! warmer than ave...

Postmenopausal women are severely affected by recurrent urinary tract infection (rUTI). The urogenital microbiome is a key component of the urinary environment. However, changes in the urogenital microbiome underlying rUTI susceptibility are unknown. Here, we perform shotgun metagenomics and advanced culture on urine from a controlled cohort of pos...

This edited book focuses on the application and implementation of bioremediation and other strategies to create a sustainable and healthy environment. It provides a collection of approaches to environmental biotechnology for wastewater treatment, removal of soil heavy metals, degradation of pesticides, removal of dyes, waste management, and microbi...

Environmental pollution has become a major issue of concern. With the rapid growth of industrialization, agricultural practices, and energy generation processes, the exploitation of natural resources has occurred. The result of which is the pollution of air and soil. To get rid of it, several practices are applied one of which is the bioremediation...

This edited book focuses on the application and implementation of bioremediation and other strategies to create a sustainable and healthy environment. It provides a collection of approaches to environmental biotechnology for wastewater treatment, removal of soil heavy metals, degradation of pesticides, removal of dyes, waste management, and microbi...

This book aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information of applying CRISPR-Cas systems for genome-editing in plants. The main focus of this book is to address the recent advances and future prospects of CRISPR-Cas technology in crops.

(Abstract coming up soon) Title: Omics-driven Biotechnological Innovations and Their Applications; Subtitle: Sustainable development in agriculture, environment, energy and health

A lecture delivered under Faculty Induction Programme , Under UGC Human Resource Development Centre and R&D and S H National College Mumbai under Coordinators Dr Mona Kejriwal and Dr Seema Shinde invitation of Dr Neha Jatiani Principal R &D and S & H National College, Mumbai Climate change is causing-extreme weather-related incidents including ver...

The book has 2 sections: Section A focuses on Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology and Section B covers Emerging Technologies in Environmental Biotechnology. The book introduces Environmental biotechnology as a tool to progress towards sustainable development goals and covers green technologies such as Bio-plastics, Third generation hy...

Launch Event of our new book "Innovations in Environmental Biotechnology" at International Congress of Biotechnology (CoB)-2022, Sponsored by Dr. B. Lal Institute of Biotechnology, at 9AM, on10th June 2022. The conference is an online event. Flyer is attached.

Arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) are the obligate symbionts, forming natural, beneficial relationships with higher plants. About 80% of plants are colonized by AM fungi which belong to Glomeromycota (Family - Endogonaceae). In soil microorganisms, AM fungi are commonly studied because of their capacity to support plant tolerance under polluted and toxic...

From Chief Editor’s Desk After Robert Emerson’s tragic death in a plane crash on February 4, 1959, Carl Cederstrand joined the PhD program in Biophysics, working under the joint mentorship of Eugene Rabinowitch and Govindjee. His very first experiments, were done on projects initiated by Govindjee, which led to the discovery of the two-light effect...

Ferns are representative of genetic inheritance of great value as they include species of ancient vascular plants, which have direct connection with the evolution of plant life on Earth. This volume brings a selection of chapters covering a range of themes on fern biology, its development and growth, useful protocols for propagation and conservatio...

The book has two sections. Section A focuses on Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology and Section B covers Emerging Technologies in Environmental Biotechnology. The book introduces Environmental biotechnology as a tool to progress towards sustainable development goals and covers green technologies such as Bio-plastics, Third generation...

Available at: https://www.amazon.in/Ferns-Biotechnology-Propagation.../dp/ Ferns are representative of genetic inheritance of great value as they include species of ancient vascular plants, which have direct connection with the evolution of plant life on Earth. This volume brings a selection of chapters covering a range of themes on fern biology, i...

The book has 2 sections: Section A focuses on Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology and Section B covers Emerging Technologies in Environmental Biotechnology. The book introduces Environmental biotechnology as a tool to progress towards sustainable development goals and covers green technologies such as Bio-plastics, Third generation hy...

Global warming has increased the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather and climate events, and will continue to increase if no mitigation strategies are undertaken urgently. Climate change poses unprecedented threats to human health by impacts on food and water security. The increasing air pollution is promoting diseases. Water pollution...

Greenhouse gas accumulation and climate change impact reduction requires widespread utilization of green technology. However, escalating demand for crops as a food source coupled with the finite availability of arable land makes cultivation of biofuel crops unsustainable. Algal biomass can be grown using non-arable areas such as lakes, oceans, or d...

The global changes that the manking is currently experiencing have never happened before. Climate and Covid 19 are two major challenges for the mankind for its survival. In order to contain the global warming, technologies that reduce greenhouse emissions and the consumption of water resources would be needed.

The Journal of Plant Science Research is a reputed peer reviewed International Journal which is published bi-annually. This Journal disseminates knowledge in all related fields of Plant Scince Research such as Plant Physiology, Agriculture, Bio-Chemistry and Botany. It imparts the latest advances in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineerin...

The Earth is speaking... we have no more time’ “World at one minute to midnight over climate change” - Boris Johnson. “Nature and climate are interlinked, and both our people and our surroundings are facing the very real impacts of rising temperatures,” Alok Sharma, the British president of the Glasgow summit, told a news conference. He said that 7...

ISBN 978-981-15-5227-4. ISBN 978-981-15-5228-1(eBook) C Springer Nature The book is dedicated to Govindjee, Mister Photosynthesis -extraordinary ambassador of photosynthesis research in the world. The text is introduced by Dr. Sven Schubert and osmosis of his vision is summarised as follows: � Alternate respiration yields less ATP than conventional...

Climate Change, Photosynthesis and Advanced Biofuels The Role of Biotechnology in the Production of Value-added Plant Bio-products Editors (view affiliations) Ashwani KumarYuan-Yeu YauShinjiro OgitaRenate Scheibe Links climate change, photosynthesis and biofuels and other plant bio-products with the latest biotechnological advances and their role i...

COVID-19 had been declared a pandemic in March 2020. The disease has caused destruction all around the world. Symptomatic treatment, supportive care, isolation and experimental measures are the most important ways to manage this disease. However, high percentage of the COVID-19 patients showed mild-to-moderate symptoms such as fever, cough, nasal c...

In the 1970s, Rolla and Alice Tryon of Harvard organized an annual fern conference at Harvard Forest every spring. The mission of the conference was to bring together researchers from across a broad spectrum of biology whose common link was that they either studied ferns per se or utilized ferns in their experiments. Talks ranged from classical pte...

Thousands of hazardous waste sites have been generated worldwide resulting from the accumulation of xenobiotics in soil and water over the years. Xenobiotic compounds are human made chemicals that are present in the environment at unnaturally high concentrations. Textile industries transform fibres into yarn; convert the yarn into fabrics or relate...

Book Description This book provides a general introduction of plant tissue culture followed by specific applications of biotechnology in regeneration of rice (Oryza sativa), Maize, Eucalyptus, hot pepper, guava (Psidium guajava L.) stone fruit (Pinus pinea) and compares the features of in vitro grown plants to in vivo plants, Transgenic plants prod...