Hyderabad: The College of Hyderabad together with researchers from NASA have found a brand new bacterial species in Worldwide Area Station (ISS) and named it after an Indian biodiversity scientist Seyed Ajmal Khan.
They’ve described the invention and isolation of 4 strains of micro organism belonging to the household Methylobacteriaceae from completely different places aboard the ISS and have named it ‘Methylobacterium ajmalii’.
The rod-shaped micro organism are believed to have the potential to develop crops within the area that facilitates area farming, nevertheless, additional experimental biology is required to show that it’s, certainly, a possible game-changer for area farming.
To develop crops in excessive locations the place assets are minimal, isolation of novel microbes that assist to advertise plant progress beneath anxious situations is important.
Whereas one pressure was recognized as Methylorubrum rhodesianum micro organism, the opposite three strains have been beforehand undiscovered.
The crew of researchers have proposed to name one of many novel strains as Methylobacterium ajmalii, after Seyed Ajmal Khan, who’s a professor on the Annamalai College in Tamil Nadu.
As part of the examine, numerous samples have been collected from the ISS throughout Microbial Monitoring from 2015-2016.
At the moment, 8 places on the ISS are being monitored for bacterial growths. These samples embody the place the crew assembles or the place experiments are carried out. Roughly, 1000’s of samples have been collected from numerous different places on the area station, nevertheless, they are going to be taken again to earth the place they are often examined.
As per media stories, NASA researchers Kasthuri Venkateswaran and Nitin Kumar Singh labored on this analysis. Each are stationed on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, the place Kasthuri is a senior analysis scientist and Nitin is planetary safety engineer.
