Madhab Naskar

• M.Sc., Ph.D.
• Associate Professor at Sonarpur Mahavidyalaya (affiliated to University of Calcutta), Kolkata, India

Grasses are among the most abundant, diverse and ecologically important group of plants; their number and diversity make them a significant part of the ecosystem. The characteristic presence of opaline silica in grasses makes them a valuable tool in environmental reconstruction over other groups of vascular plants. Fifty grass taxa belonging to fou...

Phytoliths are microscopic silica bodies deposited in and between plant cells. They are known to be important environment indicators and thus hold significant prospect for present and past ecological and environmental interpretations. We present here results of morphometric and assemblage analyses of phytoliths from five Panicoid grasses, i.e. Chry...

Porteresia coarctata (Roxb.) Tateoka is a true halophytic perennial wild grass that grows profusely along newly formed, highly saline landmasses and mudflats in the coastal mangroves of the Indian subcontinent and acts as a pioneer species in mangrove succession. Comprehensive phytolith analyses on sixteen P. coarctata samples collected from differ...

Reliability of grass phytoliths for discriminating different deltaic sub-environments has been assessed on the modern surface sediments collected along the salinity gradient of the Sunderbans delta, India. It has been observed that grass phytolith assemblages can successfully distinguish different deltaic sub-environments especially the true mangro...

To develop a phytolith (biogenic silica) reference and to understand the eco-climatic indicative values of some grass silica short cells (GSSCs) occurring in the bamboos (Bambusoideae grasses), one of the chief floral components of eastern and north-eastern parts of India, we studied 44 modern bambusoid grasses and 26 surface soils from different e...

Phytolith analysis is a powerful tool in taxonomic, ecological, and paleoenvironmental studies due to the durability and diagnostic potential of these microscopic silica bodies. This study investigates the variability of phytoliths in four Sporobolus species (Sporobolus diander, Sporobolus spicatus, Sporobolus tremulus, and Sporobolus wallichii) fr...

Abstract Reliability of grass phytoliths for discriminating different deltaic sub-environments has been assessed on the modern surface sediments collected along the salinity gradient of the Sunderbans delta, India. It has been observed that grass phytolith assemblages can successfully distinguish different deltaic sub- environments especially the...

Phytolith analysis of grasses is a potential tool in taxonomic, environmental as well as palaeoecological studies. Development of regional grass phytolith reference collection is a prerequisite and extremely crucial for proper utilization of grass phytolith as an effective proxy. During a comprehensive phytolith study from grasses of lower Gangetic...

Diversity and distribution of polylobate phytoliths in Apluda mutica L., Oplismenus compositus (L.) P. Beauv. and Themeda arundinacea (Roxb.) A. Camus This article presents morphological diversity of diagnostic polylobate phytoliths from three exclusively high polylobate yielding grasses Apluda mutica L., Oplismenus compositus (L.) P.Beauv. and The...