Bathinda: Polar biologists based at Punjab central university have found original Moss species from Continental Antarctic.
This species named Bryum Bharatiensis – named as award to the State and Antarctica Station of India Bharati.
Felix Bast, Associate Professor and Head of the Botanical Department, Central University, which is part of the Indian Antarctic Mission 2016-17 as an expedition scientist, found this greenery on the rocks near Bharati Station in Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica.
He collected samples and brought back to the lab at the University for further work.
He conducted a taxonomic assessment along with PhD students, Wahid Ul Rahman and the Gupta Kriti Collaborator who led the botanical department at Dav College, Bathinda.
The next study confirmed that this species is a new species of mosses found for the first time in the world, substantial discoveries.
In addition to the discovery of new species, this study also revealed two new taxonomic records.
The Moss Bryoerythrophyllum Recurvirostrum is recorded first of Larsemann Hills and Lawianus Coscinodon Lumut from Schirmacher Oasis – place near India Antarctic Station, Maitri.
Felix uses an approach that combines traditional morphological-based techniques with modern-based DNA sequence tools to formalize the discovery of species.
Bast said that “this was the discovery of the first plant species produced from 40 years of Antarctica Mission India, which began in 1981.
India’s first Antarctic station, Dakshin Gangotri, was founded in 1984 but was abandoned and disabled in 1990 when the station sank in the ice sheet .
Maitri station was commissioned in 1989 while Bharati stations in 2012, both when it is operational stations and throughout the year.
There are a number of bacterial species discoveries in the Antarctic, but the manner defined in the bacterial species is very different from that in plants “.
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Finding new species like this is important not only for the characterization of BUMI biodiversity, but also the fact that economic utilization may be found by future generations.
As naturally occurs living organisms cannot be patented in India, the discovery of species like this is an analog process, he said.
A paper that explains the present invention has been published in a leading international journal, Journal of the Asia-Pacific Hayati (Elsevier).
This is the discovery of the sixth species of the Felix Bast research group, all five earlier are new species of seaweed from India Beach.
New plant species found from Antarctica named after India
