Chakra Siddappa Prashantkumar

Davangere University · Department of Microbiology

Fruit and its extract consumption as part of a diet is a long-standing and well-established practice that aids in supplementing the body’s essential nourishment. The demand for healthy food habits is increasing day by day as the population increases and becoming health cognizant. Fruits and vegetables are exceptional sources of high nutrition. Amon...

The consumption of fruit and fruit extracts with diet is one of the traditional and existing habits which helps supplement the critical nutrition to the body. Among them, citrus fruits are important food and energy sources and play an important role in a balanced diet. Citrus jabara belongs to this family and is a prominent characteristic feature o...

Probiotics have attained significant interest in recent years as a result of their gut microbiome modulation and gastrointestinal health benefits. Numerous fermented foods contain lactic acid bacteria (LAB) which are considered as GRAS and probiotic bacteria. The present study aimed to investigate indigenous LAB from homemade fermented milk samples...

Lactic acid bacteria are a group of gram-positive microorganisms, which ferment carbohydrates to produce lactic acid and other metabolites, consumption of these group bacteria confers health benefit to the consumer and they are termed as Probiotics, current study aims, to isolate the Indigenous lactic acid bacteria from raw milk and homemade curd,...

The gut of human beings is inhabited by a diverse group of microorganisms, around trillions, which makes it a new essential endocrine organ and shows a symbiotic connection with a host, and they metabolize the food ingested and produce diverse bioactive and dietary compounds. This may include organic acids, bacteriocins, and short-chain fatty acids...

Microbial colonization commences during birth, and establishment of stable gut microbiota takes place in the first 3–5 years of life. A diverse group of microbiome including virome, facultative anaerobic bacteria (Proteobacteria), microaerophilic bacteria (Lactobacillus) and anaerobic bacteria (Bifidobacterium and Bacteroides) colonize the intestin...

Contamination of soil and water bodies with heavy metals like arsenic (As) is of major concern, since arsenic is non-biodegradable, toxic and causes ill effects to gastrointestinal system, skin, liver, kidney or neurological functions. In addition, animals affected by arsenic pollution through fodder intern enter to food chain. Hence, there is an u...

Background: Celiac disease is an intestinal chronic disorder with multifactorial etiology resulting in small intestinal mucosal injuries and malabsorption. In genetically predisposed individuals with HLA DQ2/DQ8 molecules, the gluten domains rich in glutamine and proline present gluten domains to gluten reactive CD4+ T cells causing injury to the...

Green synthesis of nanoparticles utilizing renewable bioresources has emerged as a new concept in present nanotechnology studies with potential environmental safety. The number of extensive research works indicates that dye degradation using biogenic nanoparticles was found to have potential application and could effectively support in remediation...

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are used as alternatives to the chemical fertilizers to increase crop yield in agriculture. The present study was undertaken to isolate, screen and evaluate selected promising PGPR isolates from maize fields. Out of 30 bacterial isolates, four most promising isolates (SP-01 to SP-04) have analysed for the...

The study was conducted in the field of biodecolorisation with a commercially available textile dye, Reactive red-120. For the Decolorisation study, a novel bacterial strain, which was tentatively identified as Micrococcus Sps strain, based on morphological, cultural characteristics and biochemical tests were isolated from the dye-contaminated soil...