New insights in food security and environmental sustainability through waste food management

NR Wani, RA Rather, A Farooq, SA Padder… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Food waste has been identified as one of the major factors that constitute numerous
anthropogenic activities, especially in developing countries. There is a growing problem with …

Endophytes: Saviour of apples from post-harvest fungal pathogens

S Gupta, S Saxena - Biological Control, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is a customarily used proverb due to
various nutritional benefits associated with it. However, the fruit is prone to infestation by …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic impacts on phytosociological features and soil microbial health of Colchicum luteum L. an endangered medicinal plant of North Western …

RA Rather, H Bano, SA Padder, K Perveen… - Saudi Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Colchicum luteum is currently a rare and threatened medicinal plant species in the Kashmir
Himalaya. Due to the subsequent increase in anthropogenic pressure on medicinal plant …

Impact of anthropogenic pressure on physico-chemical characteristics of forest soils of Kashmir Himalaya

RA Rather, H Bano, SA Padder, TR Baba, S Ara… - Bulletin of …, 2022 - Springer
The present study was carried out during the years 2017–2018 and assessed the impact of
anthropogenic activities on the physico-chemical characteristics of soil in the Kashmir …

Dynamics, phylogeny and phyto-stimulating potential of chitinase synthesizing bacterial root endosymbiosiome of North Western Himalayan Brassica rapa L.

SA Padder, RA Rather, SA Bhat, MD Shah, TR Baba… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The less phytopathogen susceptibility in Himalayan Brassica rapa L. has made it an
exceptional crop eluding synthetic pesticide inputs, thereby guarantying economically well …

[HTML][HTML] Antifungal potential of Colchicum luteum and determination of colchicine content using HPLC for application as a fungicide

RA Rather, H Bano, K Perveen, NA Bukhari… - Journal of King Saud …, 2022 - Elsevier
Colchicum luteum L. is an economically important medicinal plant species of the North
Western Himalaya. The corm extract of this plant is utilized in the treatment of many …

Seasonal fluctuation of water quality and ecogenomic phylogeny of novel potential microbial pollution indicators of Veshaw River Kashmir-Western Himalaya

RA Rather, S Ara, SA Padder, S Sharma… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nearly a billion people, especially in underdeveloped nations, need safe drinking water.
Indian studies suggest that most drinking water sources have high coliform levels, and …

Induced systemic tolerance mediated by plant-microbe interaction in maize (Zea mays L.) plants under hydrocarbon contamination

U Ummara, S Noreen, M Afzal, ZU Zafar, MS Akhter… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The present investigation was committed to examining the effect of soil spiked with diesel
contamination (0, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 g diesel kg− 1 soil) on maize (Zea mays L) varieties (MMRI …

The Assessment of Morphological Diversity of Colchicum luteum L., an Economically Important Threatened Medicinal Plant of Kashmir Himalaya

RA Rather, H Bano, A Firoz, H Mohammed Ali, MA Bhat… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Colchicum luteum L. is an economically important and endangered medicinal plant of the
Kashmir Himalaya. The corm extract is used for the treatment of rheumatism, gout, Behcet's …

Seasonal changes and determination of heavy metal concentrations in Veshaw river of the Indian western Himalaya

RA Rather, S Ara, S Sharma, SA Padder… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Trace elements are a major pollutant in the river water and these pollutants are present in all
components of the ecological system. Since time immemorial, the River Veshaw has been …