In Goa, salt production from the local salt pans is an age-old practice. These salt pans
harbor a rich diversity of halophilic microbes with immense biotechnological applications, as …

Hypersaline regions are terrestrial analogs of the Earth's primitive ecosystem and
extraterrestrial environment. The salt range in Pakistan is considered among a few of the …

Some hypersaline ecosystems exist in the form of halite, the salt deposits formed due to the
evaporation of salt water. Over a period of time, the salt-saturated hypersaline lakes or seas …

The understanding of sub-surface soil microbial diversity is limited at both saline and
hypersaline ecosystems, even though salinity is found to affect the microbial community in …

Background Sundarban is the world's largest coastal sediment comprising of mangrove
forest which covers about one million hectares in the south-eastern parts of India and …

Microbial life can thrive over extreme concentrations of salinities. Salinity has a major impact
on the evolution and distribution of microbial diversity and community structure in an …

Here we present the first report on the taxonomic diversity of the microbial communities of
the saline desert of the Great Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, using a metagenomic approach …

Abstract Sambhar Salt Lake is a large inland hypersaline lake in India situated at the eastern
fringe of Thar desert, Rajasthan. This wetland is designated as Ramsar site due to its biotic …

Bacterial diversity studies in hypersaline soil often yield novel organisms and contribute to
our understanding of this extreme environment. Soil from Mad Boon is previously …

In this study, the diversity of prokaryotes inhabiting crystallizer ponds of three solar salterns,
located along Bengal Bay in Tamil Nadu, India was examined. Unlike other salterns studied …