Solid waste management in Indian Himalayan region: current scenario, resource recovery, and way forward for sustainable development

A Thakur, S Kumari, S Sinai Borker… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With the growing population, solid waste management (SWM) is becoming a significant
environmental challenge and an emerging issue, especially in the eco-sensitive Indian …

Recent advances in feedstock and lipase research and development towards commercialization of enzymatic biodiesel

V Zambare, R Patankar, B Bhusare, L Christopher - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biodiesel is a biodegradable, renewable, and carbon-neutral alternative to petroleum diesel
that can contribute to the global effort of minimizing the use of fossil fuels and meeting the …

A broad temperature active lipase purified from a psychrotrophic bacterium of sikkim himalaya with potential application in detergent formulation

A Kumar, S Mukhia, N Kumar, V Acharya… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial lipases with activity spanning over a broad temperature and substrate range have
several industrial applications. An efficient enzyme-producing bacterium Chryseobacterium …

Generation of antioxidant peptides from soy protein isolate through psychrotrophic Chryseobacterium sp. derived alkaline broad temperature active protease

S Mukhia, A Kumar, R Kumar - Lwt, 2021 - Elsevier
Antioxidant peptides confer numerous health benefits. Unexplored niches provide
bioprospection opportunities for potential protease producing microorganisms that are …

[HTML][HTML] Psychrotrophic plant beneficial bacteria from the glacial ecosystem of Sikkim Himalaya: genomic evidence for the cold adaptation and plant growth promotion

S Mukhia, A Kumar, P Kumari, R Kumar - Microbiological Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Commercial biofertilizers tend to be ineffective in cold mountainous regions due to reduced
metabolic activity of the microbial inoculants under low temperatures. Cold-adapted glacier …

A cold-active cellulase produced from Exiguobacterium sibiricum K1 for the valorization of agro-residual resources

S Kumari, A Kumar, R Kumar - Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 2023 - Springer
In the cold regions, the problem of efficient degradation of agro-residual waste can be
overwhelmed by bioprospecting the extremozymes from cold-adapted microorganisms. The …

Distribution of antibiotic and metal resistance genes in two glaciers of North Sikkim, India

MT Sherpa, IN Najar, S Das, N Thakur - Ecotoxicology and environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Glacier studies as of late have ruffled many eyeballs, exploring this frigid ecology to
understand the impact of climate change. Mapquesting the glaciers led to the discovery of …

Industrial applications of cold-adapted enzymes: challenges, innovations and future perspective

A Kumar, S Mukhia, R Kumar - 3 Biotech, 2021 - Springer
Extreme cold environments are potential reservoirs of microorganisms producing unique
and novel enzymes in response to environmental stress conditions. Such cold-adapted …

Strategies for high-altitude adaptation revealed from high-quality draft genome of non-violacein producing Janthinobacterium lividum ERGS5:01

R Kumar, V Acharya, D Singh, S Kumar - Standards in Genomic Sciences, 2018 - Springer
A light pink coloured bacterial strain ERGS5: 01 isolated from glacial stream water of Sikkim
Himalaya was affiliated to Janthinobacterium lividum based on 16S rRNA gene sequence …

Multilocus sequence based identification and adaptational strategies of Pseudomonas sp. from the supraglacial site of Sikkim Himalaya

S Mukhia, A Kumar, P Kumari, R Kumar, S Kumar - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Microorganisms inhabiting the supraglacial ice are biotechnologically significant as they are
equipped with unique adaptive features in response to extreme environmental conditions of …