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    Accumulation of Cadmium in Transplanted Lichen Pyxine cocoes (Sw.) Nyl., with Reference to Physiochemical Variation and Kinetics of Cadmium Biosorption

    The present study aims to signify the role of Pyxine cocoes (Sw.) Nyl. (P. cocoes) as cadmium (Cd) biomonitor in atmosphere. This was achieved by quantifying the amount of Cd accumulated in transplanted P. cocoes

    Bushra Khatoon Ansari, Arvind Kumar Shukla in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination an… (2023)

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    Predicting the distributional range shifts of Rhizocarpon geographicum (L.) DC. in Indian Himalayan Region under future climate scenarios

    Himalaya, the highest mountain system in the world and house of important biodiversity hotspot, is sensitive to projected warming by climate change. Rhizocarpon geographicum (map lichen), a crustose lichen, grows...

    Devendra Kumar, Aseesh Pandey, Sandeep Rawat in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2022)

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    Ecological implication of variation in the secondary metabolites in Parmelioid lichens with respect to altitude

    Lichens are known to synthesize a variety of secondary metabolites having multifunctional activity in response to external environmental condition. Two common lichen extrolites, atranorin and salazinic acid, a...

    Vertika Shukla, D. K. Patel, Rajesh Bajpai in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2016)

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    Physiological and genetic effects of chromium (+VI) on toxitolerant lichen species, Pyxine cocoes

    Chromium is a highly toxic non-essential metal, which causes a variety of metabolic activities in plants. Pyxine cocoes a well known toxitolerant lichen species was considered to evaluate the possible physiologic...

    Rajesh Bajpai, Vertika Shukla, Niraj Singh in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2015)

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    Selection of suitable lichen bioindicator species for monitoring climatic variability in the Himalaya

    Interspecific comparison in metals and PAHs profile in three lichen species, Flavoparmelia caperata, Phaeophyscia hispidula and Pyxine sorediata, were studied in different altitudinal gradients of the Western Him...

    Rajesh Bajpai, Vertika Shukla, D. K. Upreti in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2014)

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    Performance of a naturally growing Parmelioid lichen Remototrachyna awasthii against organic and inorganic pollutants

    The present study aims to assess the level and possible sources of organic and inorganic pollutants in Mahableshwar city in Western part of India and their effect on naturally growing foliose lichen Remototrachya...

    Rajesh Bajpai, Neha Karakoti, D. K. Upreti in Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2013)

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    Physiological effects of arsenate on transplant thalli of the lichen Pyxine cocoes (Sw.) Nyl

    The changes in photosynthetic pigments, chlorophyll fluorescence, protein content, and antioxidant enzymes were investigated in a foliose lichen Pyxine cocoes, which was subjected to increasing concentrations of ...

    Rajesh Bajpai, A. K. Pandey, F. Deeba in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2012)