Western Ghats

Studies on the effect of different nutritional compounds on antibiotic activity revealed that the highest antibacterial activity was obtained when 1% starch (w/v) was used as the sole carbon source along with mineral trace elements. Extraction and purification of TBG19NRA1 culture supernatant led to the isolation of a pure molecule with good antibacterial activity. The compound has been identified as the cyclic polyether lasalocid A on the basis IR, MS and 13C NMR data interpretation and comparison with reference data from literature.

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Methane emission from various sources of biosphere contributes to the global warming/climate change related problems. Methane release from standing dead or age old trees, a new-fangled source for emission of CH4, was investigated. The experiment was carried out in tropical and subtropical forest ecoregions of Western Ghats of India. A standardized protocol was formulated for sampling and analysis of the gas samples collected from dead/decay trees. Based on our standardized protocol maximum and minimum emission of CH4 concentration was recorded.

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The present study was conducted to assess the impact of different land-use systems on major nutrient status viz: Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium in soils of central part of Western ghat, Karnataka. The land use types include both manmade systems (Agriculture: paddy...

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Considering the importance of Pteridophytes, the present study was undertaken to assess the traditional medicine importance in the Western Ghats.

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In this context, present authors felt the necessity to understand the Indian distribution, phenology, and ecological aspects of the Hopea genus.

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Considering these points, it has been thought to undertake a research work on study on diversity among Pleurotus spp. by using molecular techniques with following objectives that includes to study the variability of wild edible oyster mushroom (Pleurotus spp.) on different media. To study the physiological variability of wild edible oyster mushroom (Pleurotus spp.). To study the molecular diversity of wild edible oyster mushroom (Pleurotus spp.) by PCR based technique.

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Honey is natural substance which having multiple benefits and it was produced by bees from flower nectars. Honey has enormous demand, and it can be produced by putting fewer efforts, the study was conducted to investigate the marketing management of honey in India. India stands in one of the top producing country in world but it has highly unorganized marketing facilities.

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In this study, the tcdA coding gene of Photorhabdus luminescens was inserted in pET32a (+) plasmid with extra His-tag sequence. Photorhabdus luminescens strain was isolated from Western Ghats of Karnataka, which is symbiotically associated with entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis spp.

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Hence in this study an effort is made to isolate indigenous acetic acid bacteria of Western Ghats to determine its properties. The identification of the bacteria was carried out by 16s rRNA analysis technique.

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A study was carried out to investigate the impact of altitude in soil physical and chemical properties in dry deciduous forest of Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu. Totally fifteen soil sample were collected from altitude of 416 m to 965 m. Soil physical and chemical properties such as pH, EC, Bulk density, organic carbon and water soluble carbon were studied with respect to altitude of the soil.

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Biomonitoring of the Ephemeroptera (Family: Baetidae) was undertaken at species level in the Tamiraparani (Tirunelveli) and Vaigai (Theni) river basins of southern India. A total of 1,359 baetids were collected from three times from ten sampling sites, representing an environmental gradient.

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The study showed a significant variation in the microbial population in the different study plots with the highest bacterial (29.3 x108 cfu g1 ), fungal (15.0 x104 cfu g-1 ) and actinomycetes (3.0 x103 cfu g-1 ) population in shola forest in all the three ranges of Kodaikanal Forest Division. The population of soil microbes in Berijam and Poombarai forest range was also high under shola forests. This study has contributed to the understanding of soil microbial population in A. mearnsii invaded shola forests.

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Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam) is a largest fruited evergreen tree possibly indigenous to the rain forests of the Western Ghats in the Southwestern parts of India It is used as staple food in India and commonly known as kanthal, kathal, kathar appears in market during spring to summer.

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The import of orchid cut flowers has increased from 299.09 in 2008-09 to 3405.36 lakhs in 2015-16 (Anon., 2016).Orchids being tropical flower have a longer shelf life, as a result, they are marketed globally as cut flowers used for different purposes like flower arrangement, bouquets, corsages, stage decoration, floral jewellery, potted plant and as bedding ground orchids. Cymbidiums are leading cut flowers among orchids while Phaelanopsis are extensively used as pot plants and Dendrobiums are popular in tropical countries.

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A study was conducted to record the species composition, meteorological and zoogeographical aspects of horsefly fauna of Western ghats Belagavi division, Karnataka state, India from March 2019 to February 2020. A total of 912 flies were collected from 67 villages under 14 talukas in all the three seasons of the year. The study showed a total of 20 species of tabanids belonging to 5 genera of 3 subfamilies.

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The study revealed that most of the sheep farmers in the western ghat region of Virudhunagar district belonged to age group of 35 to 50 years were illiterate and lived in a nucleus family. Nearly 86.29% of sheep farmers were landless but 89.63% owned house, average flock size was more than 50, and were maintained by grazing for more than 6 hours per day.

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Screened the all collected microalga samples from in and around the Western Ghats of Karnataka state for the bioethanol and biomass production. 62 terrestrial microalgae were collected from the fresh water bodies and only 5 samples used for bioethanol production on the basis of biochemical characteristics, were used for multiplication and fermentation study. Multiplication of algae was done by open ponds production system.

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This study is the first report on Nonomuraea antimicrobica as a soil actinomycete. Diversity studies on the distribution of soil actinomycetes indicated significant differences (P< 0.05) among Shannon diversity indices of sample group depths along the slope.

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Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is having enormous diversity in its taste, flavour and fruit form. Their taste and flavour were unique to particular region. The Western Ghats region of Karnataka is having large diversity of unique pickling type mango, called Appemidi (tender mango). Because of unscientific management and with rapid deforestation in several of these areas, an exploratory survey was conducted in Western Ghat regions of Chikmagalur to conserve these unique types and also to review the morphological traits.

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The Niligiri Langur (Trachypithecus johnii) is a threatened black faced colobine which is endemic to Western Ghats in south India. The present study is designed to study the bacterial flora of gut from this non-human primate. The captive non-human primates usually suffer from gastrointestinal disturbances which often go unnoticed but they harbor variety bacterial flora in the gut.

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