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Multifarious plant growth-promoting traits of mangrove yeasts: growth enhancement in mangrove seedlings (Rhizophora mucronata) for conservation
Plant Growth-Promoting Yeasts (PGPY) have garnered significant attention in recent years; however, research on PGPY from mangroves remains a largely unexplored frontier. This study, therefore, focused on explo...
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A potential red-light-emitting Pr3+-doped novel silicate phosphors: Judd–Ofelt analysis and photoluminescence properties
A simple and highly efficient method of the solid-state reaction method was used to synthesize a new series of red-light-emitting KBaScSi3O9:xPr (KBSxPr) silicate phosphors. The resultant XRD pattern would have b...
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Mangrove Forests of India: An Overview
Mangrove forests of India are globally unique and have the highest record in biodiversity of flora and fauna. India is the second richest country for mangrove biodiversity in the world, with the presence of a ...
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Biomass and vegetation carbon stock in mangrove forests of the Andaman Islands, India
The present study estimated plant biomass in mangrove forests of the Andaman Islands, India. The mean above-ground biomass was 469.20 ± 41.25 Mega-gram/ha (Mg ha−1), while the mean below-ground biomass was 166.78...
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Ensuring the adaptive potential of Coastal wetlands of India- the need of the hour for sustainable management
India is endowed with a variety of coastal wetlands viz., mangroves, seagrasses, saltmarshes, coral reefs, lagoons and tidal flats, and the country is also a signatory to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and ...
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Biogeography of the Mangrove Ecosystem: Floristics, Population Structure, and Conservation Strategies
Biogeography refers to reconstruction in the patterns of distribution of biological diversity and to identify the processes that are responsible for those distributions over the time. Despite the better unders...
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Mangroves: Types and Importance
Mangroves are of great ecological significance and economic importance. They are of different types—deltaic, estuarine, lagoon, and fringe mangroves—based on coastal location. The mangroves are of six function...
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Salt-tolerant Microbes in Mangroves: Ecological Role and Bioprospecting Potential
Mangroves support salt-tolerant microbial communities such as microalgae, fungi, actinomycetes, bacteria as well as viruses. The microbes form the basis of the functioning of the mangrove habitats. The mangrov...
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Bioremoval of lead and iron from sewage water by mangrove-derived Hypocrea lixii
This work focused on the bioremoval of heavy metals by mangrove-derived Trichoderma biomass in the artificial sewage water. Of the 12 isolates tested, Hypocrea lixii TSK8 (JQ809340) was found to be a potent stra...
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Density of waterbirds in relation to habitats of Pichavaram mangroves, Southern India
Tropical mangroves are one of vital coastal systems which support migratory and resident waterbird species round the year. Globally the potential of mangrove habitats in relation to support waterbirds is poorl...
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Open AccessBioconversion of lignocellulosic waste to bioethanol by Trichoderma and yeast fermentation
The present work aimed at producing bioethanol using lignocellulosic waste sawdust and marine yeast fermentation. Lignocellulosic waste materials were converted into monosugars through acid hydrolysis and fina...
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Carbon sequestration potential of Rhizophora mucronata and Avicennia marina as influenced by age, season, growth and sediment characteristics in southeast coast of India
This work analysed the carbon sequestration potential in two species of mangroves (Rhizophora mucronata and Avicennia marina) along with their growth, biomass, sediment characteristics for four seasons of the yea...
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Mangrove conservation: a global perspective
Mangroves are of great ecological importance and socio-economic significance as a hub for tropical marine biotope. The mangroves are also one of the world’s richest storehouses of biological and genetic divers...
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Experimental study of the interspecific competition between two sibling marine herbivorous rotifers in relation to food availability and initial population density
Our laboratory study concerns the competitive interaction between two marine rotifer species Brachionus plicatilis and Brachionus rotundiformis at five algal (Nannochloropsis salina) concentrations (0.4×106 to 32...
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Spatial and temporal distribution of macrobenthos in different mangrove ecosystems of Tamil Nadu Coast, India
This paper deals with the spatial distribution and diversity of macrobenthos and their relationships between physico-chemical parameters of the water and sediment in different mangrove habitats of Tamil Nadu, ...
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The role of rhizobacteria in salinity effects on biochemical constituents of the halophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum
An experiment was conducted to understand the role of rhizospheric microorganisms in salinity effects on growth, antioxidants, pigments, and ion concentrations in the halophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum L. The plan...
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How to increase juvenile shrimps in mangrove waters?
The distribution, density and species composition of juvenile shrimps were studied in three mangrove zones of Pichavaram, situated on the southeast coast of India. Nine species of shrimps dominated with Metapenae...
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Purification of Anti-HIV Protein from Purple Fluid of the Sea Hare Bursatella leachii de Blainville
The purple fluid of Bursatella leachii, already found to have anti-HIV activity, was selected and tested for purification and characterization of an anti-HIV protein. Only one fraction showed anti-HIV activity...
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A review of studies on Pichavaram mangrove, southeast India
We studied a tropical mangrove ecosystem, situated at Pichavaram, southeast India. We found 13 species of mangrove trees, with Avicennia marinaand Rhizophora species predominant, besides 73 spp. of other plants, ...
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Effects of UV-B radiation on photosynthetic reactions in Rhizophora apiculata
Influences of UV-B radiation on Rhizophora apiculata were studied in terms of chlorophylls, their presence in protein complexes of the chloroplast, PS I and PS II photochemical activities, in vitro absorption ...
