Pigment production by cold-adapted bacteria and fungi: colorful tale of cryosphere with wide range applications

W Sajjad, G Din, M Rafiq, A Iqbal, S Khan, S Zada, B Ali… - Extremophiles, 2020 - Springer
Pigments are an essential part of everyday life on Earth with rapidly growing industrial and
biomedical applications. Synthetic pigments account for a major portion of these pigments …

Impact of anthropogenic contamination on glacier surface biota

F Pittino, J Buda, R Ambrosini, M Parolini… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Glaciers act as cold condensers where the deposition of contaminants is
favored.•Cryoconite holes are efficient traps for contaminants and are biologically active …

Molecular characterization of bacterial isolates from soil samples and evaluation of their antibacterial potential against MDRS

S Sadiqi, M Hamza, F Ali, S Alam, Q Shakeela… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Some soil microbes, with their diverse inhabitance, biologically active metabolites, and
endospore formation, gave them characteristic predominance and recognition among other …

Climate change, melting cryosphere and frozen pathogens: Should we worry…?

LA Yarzábal, LMB Salazar… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Permanently frozen environments (glaciers, permafrost) are considered as natural reservoirs
of huge amounts of microorganisms, mostly dormant, including human pathogens. Due to …

High prevalence of antibiotic-resistant and metal-tolerant cultivable bacteria in remote glacier environment

W Sajjad, B Ali, H Niu, N Ilahi, M Rafiq, A Bahadur… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) have mainly originated from anthropic-
influenced environments, with limited information from pristine environments. Remote cold …

Microbial pigments: learning from the Himalayan perspective to industrial applications

S Kumar, V Kumar, D Nag, V Kumar… - Journal of Industrial …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Pigments are an essential part of life on earth, ranging from microbes to plants and humans.
The physiological and environmental cues induce microbes to produce a broad spectrum of …

[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 …

Resurrection of inactive microbes and resistome present in the natural frozen world: Reality or myth?

W Sajjad, M Rafiq, G Din, F Hasan, A Iqbal… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present world faces a new threat of ancient microbes and resistomes that are locked in
the cryosphere and now releasing upon thawing due to climate change and anthropogenic …

Bacterial diversity and communities structural dynamics in soil and meltwater runoff at the frontier of Baishui Glacier No. 1, China

W Sajjad, B Ali, A Bahadur, PS Ghimire, S Kang - Microbial ecology, 2021 - Springer
Comprehensive knowledge of bacterial ecology mainly in supraglacial habitats is pivotal
particularly at the frontier of accelerated glacier retreat. In this study, bacterial diversity and …

Occurrence of integrons and antibiotic resistance genes in cryoconite and ice of Svalbard, Greenland, and the Caucasus glaciers

N Makowska, K Zawierucha, P Nadobna… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The prevalence of integrons and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is a serious threat for
public health in the new millennium. Although commonly detected in sites affected by strong …