There is good news regarding Thar desert of Rajasthan and Aapno Jodhpur. Scientists from JNVU have found new bacteria which would help to preserve the natural fertility of land and also cultivate with agricultural production on the barren land of Thar desert.
Scientists have discovered this new bacteria in Asia’s Thar desert located in India, Africa’s Merzouga desert located in Morocco, and North America’s Baja California desert located in Mexico almost at the same time and kept the name “Ensifer Aridi” bacteria.
The scientific world has reached a very important milestone by exploring the bacteria which can stabilize nitrogen. This bacteria work as Nitrogen Fixation, i.e extracts the nitrogen present in atmosphere & provide the same to the plants, useful for the cultivation. In future, Thar desert barren lands can be turned into well-cultivated lands.
Jai Narayan Vyas University’s Department of Botany has found this bacteria in the Thar Desert. Three years ago, Science and Technical department and UGC have given the project to research in Rampant processing for the Thar Desert.
This discovery was done by Botany department led by Prof. Hukam Singh Gehlot, Prof. Nisha Tak, Prof. Shweta Jha and Bhanaram. Prof. Hukam Singh Gehlot, Research and Department Director of Botany Department, JNVU, said that,” this is the first time such research work has been conducted on plants found in the Thar Desert, which has had significant success. Scientists are working worldwide on the discovery of bacteria which helps in agriculture”.
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He added later, ”We researched for this bacteria and sent it to NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) for Gene Mapping. Similar Mapping from Mexico & Morocco also came there. This helped in researching and discovering for this new bacteria. ENSIFER ARIDI is the key to a successful cultivation for barren and dried lands.”
Same Bacteria in Three Deserts but Different Plants
Nitrogen stabilization bacteria is found in the roots of leguminous (फलीदार) plants. Encifer Aridi bacteria is found in three hot deserts in three different plants. JNVU has researched in Barmer, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Churu & Bikaner. They found this bacteria in the roots of Tephrosia (Biyani category) plant. In Morroco, Ensifer Aridi is found in Acacia (बबूल) plant & in Mexico in kidney Beans (राजमा) plants. Mr. Hukum Singh Gehlot, professor of JNVU has suggested this particular species of ENSIFER to be named as ENSIFER ARIDI.
How did This Bacteria work?
There is 78% of Nitrogen in the atmosphere, but plant can’t use this nitrogen directly. In factories, at the temperature of 450` C temperature, the nitrogen is converted into Ammonia, which work as fertilizer. This cost crore of currency to produce artificial fertilizer for plants.
The Encifer class of bacteria worked as Nitrogen stabilization which will help to increase the natural fertility of land and agricultural production is likely to grow with the help of these bacteria. In future, this micro-organism can be used as natural fertilizer and it will help to reduce the side effect of artificial fertilizers too.
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Eight species of Tephrosia are found in western Thar and they are used as fodder expenditure and medicines. Research has also confirmed the molecular roots of Tephrosia which are rich in endophytes and helpful in the growth of plants and trees.
While changing the gene system of such plants and copy in numbers, can help to get rid of fertilizers, as this will work as natural fertilizer for plants. Now barren land can be converted into well Cultivated farms.
AapnoJodhpur team Congrats the team for this wonderful and useful discovery and Wishes much more like that in near future. Connect with us for more such updates, follow us on Facebook.
