Kolkata:

A bunch of six researchers at Visva-Bharati College in West Bengal has found a novel bacterial species with plant growth-promoting properties. They named it Pantoea Tagorei in honour of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The invention was not too long ago revealed within the Indian Journal of Microbiology. The researchers are Raju Biswas, Arijit Misra, Sandip Ghosh, Abhinaba Chakraborty, and Puja Mukherjee.

Arijit Misra, a analysis scholar in Dr Bomba Dam’s lab, expressed pleasure in isolating the bacterium Pantoea tagorei and dedicating it to Rabindranath Tagore, the primary Indian Nobel laureate and Rathindranath Tagore, an agriculturist, respectively. The identification course of concerned whole-genome sequencing for bacterial characterisation.

“Proud second for our lab (Dr Bomba Dam’s lab). Remoted a novel bacterium and named Pantoea tagorei as a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore, the primary Indian Nobel laureate, and Rathindranath Tagore, an agriculturist. WGS-based examine for bacterial identification,” Mr Misra stated in a publish on X, previously Twitter.
 

Proud second for our lab (Dr. Bomba Dam’s lab). Remoted a novel micro organism and named Pantoea tagorei as a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore, first Indian Nobel laureate, and Rathindranath Tagore, an agriculturist. WGS based mostly examine for bacterial identification.https://t.co/w9hIeSiH3z

— Arijit Misra (@ArijitMisra7) December 15, 2023

Because of the detrimental results of extreme chemical fertiliser use, which renders land unusable, farmers are shifting in the direction of natural farming and fertilisers.

The newly found bacterium, named MR1 (Mine Rhizosphere), is a Gram-negative, short-rod, non-motile, facultatively anaerobic, potassium-solubilising species remoted from the rhizospheric soil of an open-cast coal mine in Jharia, Jharkhand.