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    Agriculture Production and Climate Change
    (Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, 2018) Monowar Alam Khalid, Pawan Kumar Bharti, Alka Chauhan
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    Environmental Economics and Sustainability
    (Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, 2018) Jose G.Vargas-Hernandez, Monowar Alam Khalid, Pawan Kumar Bharti
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    Elicitation-Based Biotechnological Interventions to Promote Hairy Root Growth and Biomass Yield
    (Springer, Singapore, 2025) Kahkashan Khatoon, Zafar Iqbal Warsi, Tahreem Junaid, Syed Saema, Gazala Parween, Laiq Ur Rahman
    Hairy root cultures, produced through genetic transformation by Agrobacterium rhizogenes,represent a highly dependable and metabolically efficient biosynthetic system. Their rapid growth and genetic stability make them ideal for the sustained production of biomass and high-value secondary metabolites under controlled in vitro conditions. Owing to their high transgene expression capabilities, they hold immense promise for scalable bioactive compound production and molecular farming across pharmaceutical and agricultural sectors. This chapter explores advanced biotechnological strategies aimed at enhancing hairy root productivity through elicitation and optimization of culture conditions. Particular emphasis is placed on the critical roles of carbon sources especially sucrose, macro- and micronutrients in regulating metabolic fluxes and supporting robust root development. Furthermore, the synergistic influence of physiological factors such as oxygen availability, temperature regimes, and light intensity on biomass accumulation and metabolite biosynthesis is thoroughly examined. Elicitors like methyl jasmonate, salicylic acid, and sodium nitroprusside are discussed for their ability to activate plant defense pathways and stimulate secondary metabolism. Integration of innovative bioreactor designs and precise environmental control systems significantly enhances scalability and yield. Overall, this comprehensive analysis highlights hairy root cultures as a transformative tool in plant biotechnology, offering sustainable and efficient platforms for the commercial production of therapeutically valuable natural products.
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    Advances in Elicitor-Mediated Secondary Metabolite Production in Plant Cell Suspensions: Factors and Mechanisms
    (Springer, Singapore, 2025) Gazala Parween, Sabika Akram, Tanya Singh, Syed Saema, Kahkashan Khatoon, Laiq Ur Rahman
    Secondary metabolites are diverse bioactive compounds produced by plants, playing crucial roles in defense against pathogens, pests, and environmental stress. Due to their pharmacological properties, these metabolites are highly valued in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food industries. The cell suspension culture technique has emerged as a powerful tool to enhance the production of these secondary metabolites. The growth and productivity of cell suspensions are influenced by multiple factors, including cell size, temperature, pH, nutrient media composition, growth kinetics, light exposure, and inoculum density. Optimizing these parameters is essential to enhance cell viability and maximize metabolite yield. By improving growth conditions and employing elicitors, such as biotic and abiotic stimuli, this method stimulates metabolite biosynthesis, offering a scalable and efficient approach for producing high-value compounds. This knowledge paves the way for the development of advanced, large-scale cell suspension culture systems tailored to specific medicinal plants, enabling sustainable and high-yield production of secondary metabolites.
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    Integrating Environmental Monitoring Techniques for an Effective Healthcare System
    (CRC Press, 2023) Nupur Joshi, Ambrina Sardar Khan
    Health is not merely the absence of disease but a state of complete physical, social, and mental activeness, whereas health care is the management, treatment, and prevention of illness. Health is a very important parameter to indicate the good living and quality of life of an individual. Many pathological factors are involved in a disease such as people, vectors, causative agents, and hosts. Monitoring of health and development of the public health sector is an important aspect for the social, cultural, and economic well-being of society. Thus, for the analysis of these pathological factors with their relationship with geographical distribution, GIS (spatial, temporal references) and other cartographic information taken from remote sensing and other technologies can be used effectively. Through mapping and analysed temporal and spatial patterns, the distribution of a particular health status cause can be tracked. Incorporating the records attained from ground data and sensors helps in the enhancement of results. This review includes recent literature on healthcare and GIS. It includes descriptions of various disease agents, and how GIS helps in the analysis of their distribution and occurrence. To study a disease, GIS is a promising area however it has not reached its full potential. For this, disease and environmental observation systems need to be further developed.
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    Anatomisation of Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Dynamics with a Focus on Land Surface Temperature in Lucknow City Using Geospatial Techniques
    (CRC Press, 2023) Akanksha, Pranjal Pandey, Ambrina Sardar Khan
    Rapid augmentation in urban areas throughout the world has become an inescapable phenomenon. As the population continues to grow, the geological boundaries are extending too. This study focuses completely on improvements in urbanised urban communities and their development with the assistance of spatial variation utilising time-series satellite data and statistically generated models to observe the pattern of LULC transition over the last 19 years of one of the most expeditiously urbanising cities of India: Lucknow. The classification report indicated an expansion of 96.51 sq. km of built-up area and shrinkage in covers of agricultural land and vegetation spread. To gauge the changing spatial patterns in urban expansion, the Shannon Entropy Index technique is applied over the chosen time frame dependent on LULC change and a statistical approach. The perception we got from this study depends on classification and statistically created models of satellite data. The land surface temperature (LST) is additionally depicted to discover the impacts of urban sprawl on nearby temperatures. General increases of 3.26℃ and 2.01℃ were seen in the minimum and maximum temperature, respectively, from 2000 to 2019. LST is also correlated with the vegetation index (NDVI), built-up index (NDBI), and water index (MNDWI). The total increase of the population and an unsustainable expansion rate of urban sprawl in the study area illustrates the elevation in LST.
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    Linseed and Its Nutritional and Health Beneficial Aspects: A Review
    (Mindshare, 2021) Iffat Zareen Ahmad, Haram Sarfaraz
    There is a great deal of competition for foods that have active ingredients present in the form of bioactive molecules of food with potential health benefits. This is the basic requirement for any food to come under the category of functional foods or nutraceutical. Linum usitatissimum L. is emerging as an important nutraceutical as it is a reservoir of many bioactive compounds or molecules ranging from a-linolenic acid, lignans, fiber, and various other phenolic compounds. This review concentrates on the current flaxseed records and highlights the nutritional properties and its beneficial effects. Literature was retrieved by searching for abstracts and titles of articles on PubMed, Science direct as well as Google Scholar for studying. The papers and reference lists were reviewed to see if there were any supplementary posts.
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    Hornbills: Allies of Farmers In Futuristic Trends in Agriculture & Food Sciences
    (Iterative International Publishers, 2024) Ruchira Nigam, Asif Ahmad Siddiqui, Ruby Yadav, Monowar Alam Khalid, Chitra Singh
    The 62 species of hornbills around the world are extravagant birds with over-sized beaks that are found in tropical Asia, Africa, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. They are icons of their forest habitat. Because they spread the seeds of several tropical trees, they are frequently referred to as the "farmers of the forest" because of the way they spread forest tree seeds over the area they fly over. Hombills regurgitate or vomit the seeds after eating as they typically occupy a home range of at least 10 km, they may disperse seeds across a far larger area with far greater efficiency than other smaller frugivores. They are a sign of a balanced and prosperous forest. For this reason, hornbills are regarded as an indicator species. The tale of how the bond between these birds and the long-standing custom of protecting forests in the name of a deity has helped to preserve both the unprotected forests and sacred groves throughout wide-ranging terrain. In recognition of the significance of these birds, and to ensure the continuity of this unique alliance, conservation initiatives have gained a greater spotlight. Conservation organizations, farmers, and local communities are working together to protect hornbill habitats and spread awareness among the local communities for safeguarding the agricultural landscapes inhabited by them by fostering a greater appreciation of the ecological and cultural worth of hornbills.
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    Genetic improvement of pelargonium, an important aromatic plant, through biotechnological approaches
    (Bentham Science Publishers, 2024) Pooja Singh, Syed Saema , Laiq ur Rahman
    Pelargonium is one of the most recognized aromatic herbs due to its wide distribution around several countries and its perfumery and aromatherapy properties. The present chapter aims at exploring the current scientific study the various species of Pelargonium along with its significance. The essential oil of Pelargonium contains more th 120 monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes obtained from the steam distillation of herbaceous parts. Citronellol, geraniol, rhodinol, 6, 9 -guaidiene, and lO-epi-γ eudesmol are the principal components responsible for its oil quality. Traditionally, propagation of pelargonium is done through cuttings from its mother plant material. However, the tissue culture approach is one of the reliable techniques for propagation and conservation, not influenced by environmental conditions. More likely, tissue culture approaches used are somatic embryogenesi callus culture, direct regeneration, meristem culture, and hairy root culture. Transcriptome analysis has also been carried out in Pelargonium graveolens to understand the metabolic pathway. In order to accomplish the maximum oil production and better geranium varieties through genetic engineering, Agrobacterium mediated transformation systems have been developed. These standardised genetic transformation procedures were used to over-express, silencing, and heterologous expression of desired genes in Pelargonium to understand the outcome and succeed with enhanced essential oil production with better quality for the ultimate benefit. © 2024 Bentham Scien Publishers. All rights reserved.
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    Wildlife and Plastic Debris: A Dangerous Encounter
    (Academic Publishers & Distributers, 2024) Monowar Alam Khalid; Azra Ikram
    Plastic pollution has a significant impact on wildlife around the world. The presence of plastic waste in ecosystems poses a serious threat to marine and terrestrial animals. Marine animals such as sea turtles, whales and seabirds often mistake plastic debris for food, leading to ingestion and entanglement. This can result in severe injuries, suffocation, and even death. Plastic pollution also disrupts habitats and food chains, affecting the overall health and balance of ecosystems. Management of plastic waste is inadequate in all most all developing countries because of low environmental standards, poor waste recovery and disposal systems, low economic status, lack of awareness of public, poor hygienic and living standards and no strict law enforcement. It's crucial that we take action to reduce plastic pollution and protect our precious wildlife.