Rishee Kalaria

• Navsari Agricultural University

Aim: The present study aims to design a molecular authentication protocol for the renowned polyherbal formulation Triphala with the help of recent advances in the DNA barcoding technology. Purpose of Work: In recent decades, ayurvedic polyherbal medications have gained immense popularity worldwide. The quality of some of these herbal products has r...

An essential element required for the existence of man and other biotic species is the environment. The survival and well-being of all its constituent parts are measured by the physical environment's degree of sustainability. Furthermore, using any recognized way to dispose of poisonous or harmful compounds is insufficient. Increasing demand of hum...

Banana bunchy top disease is one of the most prevalent viral infections associated with banana farming. It is a rapidly spreading disease. Currently, there are very few fully sequenced isolate reports from India and around the world. When in silico analysis was conducted on various Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) various genome components at nucleot...

During Rabi 2021–2022, 100 genotypes of mungbean were tested for resistance to yellow mosaic disease in the field using the disease grading system. Out of the 100 mungbean genotypes, 49 were resistant to the yellow mosaic disease, 22 as Moderately resistant, 11 as Moderately susceptible, 3 as susceptible, and 15 were highly susceptible. The sequenc...

Plants are frequently subjected to a range of biotic and abiotic stress conditions in the environment that restrict their development and growth. Improving agricultural output and productivity to feed the world’s rapidly growing population would be a big challenge if chemical fertilisation were reduced. Agricultural intensification places enormous...

A heterogeneous community with a broad environmental distribution describes ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), core participants in global biogeochemical cycles. AOBs are important representatives of the microbial populations of the terrestrial, aquatic, and manufacturing sectors and play a central role within these environments in the nitrogen cycl...

The oil industry produces one of the most well-known toxic pollutants as Petroleum Sludge. One of the biggest problems faced by oil refineries is the safe treatment of this greasy sludge. Bioremediation is a cutting-edge environmental technology that eliminates hazardous contaminants entirely by utilising natural ecosystem functions.These section d...

Many physico-chemical and operational factors influence the performance, treatment costs, and longterm stability of biofilters for the treatment of wastewater. An innovative role of biofiltration in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) focuses on identifying the factors that affect biofiltration, such as the hydraulic retention time of the biofiltra...

Any unwanted harmful material is known as contaminant. Contaminant can be natural or manmade origin. Pollutants which were not previously or not regularly present in environment are known as emerging contaminations. They are categorized according to their properties, utility or sources. Emerging contaminations include personal health care products,...

As medical science and veterinary science has progressed so well and population size is increasing day by day worldwide, healthcare products and medicine production also increases to fulfil needs. These various pharmaceutical and personal care products are disposed in to environment sometimes without treatment. Due to this step, various trace resid...

Mycotoxins, especially molds, produce naturally toxic fungal compounds. Different mycotoxins are generated by molds that can grow on many crops and foodstuffs, such as cereals, nuts, dried fruits, and spices, during storage, harvesting, and cultivation under varying conditions, including deserts, high salinity, and thus cause severe financial loss...

Biological wastewater treatment using biotechnological methods is one of the most important processes in the handling of industrial wastewater. The efficacy and efficiency of its service depends on the present microbial community’s composition and behavior. The use of traditional and molecular techniques has provided a glimpse into the closed box i...

Wastewater is a type of polluted water which results from different human mediated and natural activities. Municipal and industrial wastewater include various types of pollutants like xenobiotic compounds, recalcitrant compounds, persistent organic pollutants, radioactive substances, heavy metals and pathogens. Different types of treatment membrane...

The greatest challenge of the 21st century is to tackle the increasing pollution in the environment. Among them, the most important is water pollution, and the rising levels of pollution are harming many habitats. Industrialization plays a vital role in human society, despite that widespread anthropogenic and industrial activities include dumping l...

Biochar has seized interest due to its important impact on the remediation of heavy-metal-contaminated soil. Based on the research accomplishments of biochar remediation of heavy-metal-contaminated soils in recent years, a variety of important aspects, including development and properties of biochar, remediation processes, remediation effects, and...

The current outbreak of the novel 2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is caused by SARS-CoV-2, has developed a threat to the world's human population. There are no effective therapies or vaccines yet, urging the serious efforts to tackle this pandemic situation.SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, papain like protease protein (PLPRO), main protease (3CLpro) a...

In the 21st century, the most challenging threat is environmental pollution and its impact on climate change. Researchers and scientists aim to minimize contamination due to the rapid expansion of industrialization, urbanization, and modern agricultural practices and its consequences in the degradation of water, soil, and air quality. These polluta...

p>This computational study comprises screening and prediction of interaction of selected antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine with targeted two proteins of coronavirus. One is SARS enveloped E pantameric ion channel protein and another is SARS-CoV-2 main apoprotein protease. Both are vital for viral attachment and entry to the host cell for infecti...

p> In silico docking study showed that hydroxychloroquine drug interactions with SARS-CoV2 show a higher binding affinity with spike glycoprotein and PLPRO protein compared to protein envelopes that could be ladder for potential targeting and synthesizing of another aniviral drug. In silico methods used in this study, the efficacy of a wide variety...

he associated dominant species of grain mold complex in sorghum playing major role in reducing market value. The isolated dominant species, Cladosporium cladosporioides causing typical leaf spot discolorations and grain mold symptoms in sorghum (genetype SRF-305) was subjected to microscopic examination and morphological assessment for growth and d...

In India, Sorghum anthracnose is a widespread disease caused by fungi Colletotrichum spp. result in severe economic losses. Chalcone Synthase Gene (CHS) expression induced during biotic and abiotic stresses. CHS is a key enzyme of the flavonoid and isoflavonoid biosynthetic pathway. Sorghum synthesizes various flavanoids in response to fungal infec...

s Chilli leaf curl disease (CLCVD) incited in different species of crops and one of the most significant biotic disease in limiting production and productivity in India and worldwide. In this study, Natural incidence of CLCVD disease on chilli was observed in March, 2019 at Gujarat, India. The infected plants revealed systemic viral symptoms as lea...

Brinjal little leaf (BLL) is a common phytoplasma etiology disease in India that causes serious financial losses. The sample was collected from the south Gujarat region of India during March, 2019 showing severe symptoms of stunting and profuse branching with little leaf were collected for phytoplasma identification and detection. Direct PCR assays...

Laccases have vast prospective for biotechnological applications due to their outstanding bioremediation potential. These include abundant applications in effluent detoxification, enzymatic conversion of chemical intermediates, wine clarification degradation of textile dyes etc. In the present study, two potential microbes were isolated on solid me...

The papaya crop is severely affected by PRSV, PapMV & PLCV worldwide. In this study, coat protein sequences of PRSV - P, PRSV - W, PapMV & PLCV were analyzed and modelled to explore properties and structure. Comparative homology modelling & Ab initio were performed by different servers, viz. ModWeb, Phyre2, Swiss Model & I - TASSER with the obs...

A. salinestris NAULR-1 was isolated from the field pocket with the poor growth crop phenology whereas K. pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae NAULR-2was isolated from the field with good crop condition and phenology. Both the bacterial isolates showed presence of nif gene and were fixing atmospheric nitrogen. A clear halo zone of 7 mm was observed in K. pn...

A study was conducted to examine the role of different abiotic factors in mungbean in understanding physiological and biochemical changes. It was observed that maximum protein content in mungbean was observed 51% at 300mM sodium chloride, 71% at 5mM mercury chloride, 90% saline sea water, 30% PEG , 6mM lead acetate. It was observed that catalase ac...

Halophiles are excellent sources of enzymes that are not only salt stable but also can survive and carry out reactions efficiently under extreme circumstances. The aim of the study was to isolate and study the diversity among halophilic producing enzymes of industrial value. Screening of halophiles from various saline habitats of South Gujarat regi...

The cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) system is convenient and efficient for hybrid seed production in Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). However, it has not been widely used because of limited restorer lines carrying the restorer gene Rf1. The present study was carried out with the objective to identified restore fertility (Rf) (Gossypium hirsu...

Atherigona soccata is an important pest of sorghum and host plant resistance is one of the important factor for minimizing the losses due to this pest. Therefore, we evaluated a diverse array of sorghum genotypes to identify biochemical changes conferring resistance to A. soccata. The genotypes IS 18551, SR 2879, IS 2205, SR 2812 and GJ 42 were not...

Endophytic microorganisms live as symbiotic relationship within a plant tissue (root, fruit, stem, seed, leaf, etc.) without causing any symptoms of diseases to the host. They act as a growth promoter to the plants. The aim of the present study was to isolate and identify endophytes from Terminalia species. Endophytes were isolated successfully fro...

Sorghum shoot fly, Atherigona soccata is an important pest of sorghum and host plant resistance is one of the important factor for minimizing the losses due to this pest. Therefore, we evaluated a diverse array of sorghum genotypes to identify biochemical changes conferring resistance to A. soccata. The genotypes IS 18551, SR 2879, IS 2205 and GJ 4...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is one of the most important cereal crops widely grown for food, feed, fodder, forage and fuel in the semiarid regions of the world. Among hundreds of insect pests that attack sorghum, the shoot fly Atherigona soccata Rond. is one of the most important biotic constraints, which causes damage when sowing is dela...

Sorghum shoot fly, Atherigona soccata is an important pest of sorghum and host plant resistance is one of the important factor for minimizing the losses due to this pest. Therefore, we evaluated a diverse array of sorghum genotypes to identify biochemical changes conferring resistance to A. soccata. The genotypes IS 18551, SR 2879, IS 2205 and GJ 4...

Sorghum shoot fly, Atherigona soccata is an important pest of sorghum and host plant resistance is one of the important factor for minimizing the losses due to this pest. Therefore, we evaluated a diverse array of sorghum genotypes to identify biochemical changes conferring resistance to A. soccata. The genotypes IS 18551, SR 2879, IS 2205 and GJ 4...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is one of the most important cereal crops widely grown for food, feed, fodder, forage and fuel in the semiarid regions of the world. Among hundreds of insect pests that attack sorghum, the shoot fly Atherigona soccata Rond. is one of the most important biotic constraints, which causes damage when sowing is dela...