DIVERSITY OF THE GENUS NOSTOC VAUCHER (NOSTOCALES, CYANOPROKARYOTA) FROM TRIPURA, INDIA

Authors

  • RAMA KANT Department of Botany, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India 250005
  • KUNTAL SARMA Department of Botany, Ramkrishna Mahavidyalaya, Kailashahar, Unakoti (T) India 799277
  • AMRISH SAINI Department of Botany, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India 250005
  • JYOTI SINGH Department of Botany, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India 250005
  • NIDA ZIYAUL Department of Botany, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India 250005
  • SUNIL KUMAR Department of Botany, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India 250005

Keywords:

Biodiversity, Cyanoprokaryotes, Nostoc, Tripura

Abstract

North Eastern Himalayan region of India is known for biodiversity richness of fauna and flora including microalgae and cyanoprokaryotes. Present paper deals with the diversity of genus Nostoc Vaucher from Indo-Bangla region of Tripura, India. is a filamentous, unbranched, heterocystous and diazotrophic Blue-green Alga. In the present investigation we report seventeen species of Nostoc from Tripura, India, out of which, twelve species are new addition to the flora of Tripura. Our study also revealed that out of total seventeen species of Nostoc, about 23.5% grow in rice fields and rest about 76.5 % flourish on other habitats of Tripura, India, which may be due to indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides

Published

2020-09-30

How to Cite

KANT, R., SARMA, K., SAINI, A., SINGH, J., ZIYAUL, N., & KUMAR, S. (2020). DIVERSITY OF THE GENUS NOSTOC VAUCHER (NOSTOCALES, CYANOPROKARYOTA) FROM TRIPURA, INDIA. The Journal of the Indian Botanical Society, 100(1-2), 16–29. Retrieved from https://jibs.mripub.com/index.php/JIBS/article/view/75

Issue

Vol. 100 No. 1-2 (2020): Journal of Indian Botanical Society

Section

Articles