Ketankumar Joitaram Panchal

Anand Agricultural University | AAU · Department of Animal Genetics & Breeding

In this comprehensive investigation, we conducted a rigorous analysis of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) within two venomous lionfish species, Pterois antennata and Pterois radiata. Our approach combined transcriptomics and bioinformatics to elucidate a diverse repertoire of AMPs from venomous spines of these two fish species, encompassing known pept...

Introduction: The poultry industry in India, estimated to be worth about one trillion INR, was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was conducted in Gujarat, India to unpack the processes through which COVID-19-related factors affected the poultry production and distribution network and explore the impacts on the relevant actors....

Introduction: The COVID-19 severely marred the Indian poultry industry, worth approximately one trillion INR. Hence, this study was conducted to understand the COVID-19 related factors that harmed the poultry production and distribution network and explore their varied impact on its actors in Gujarat, India. Methods: An exploratory qualitative stud...

The aim of study was to identify Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in the exon regions of GnRH-I, GnRH-II/MRPS26 and GnRHR genes and to assess their association with egg production up to 64 weeks of age (EN64) in chicken. Blood samples were collected from 48 Anand Synthetic White Leghorn (ASWLH) and 48 Anand Bantamised White Leghorn (ABWLH) ch...

Horn cancer is most devastating and prominent cancer in Indian zebu cattle that affects socio-economic condition of small-scale farmers who depends on their cattle for farm work. Development in the field for genomics through next generation sequencing and bioinformatics advancement have helped to identify genes which have a role in horn cancer deve...

Chitin is a natural polysaccharide and is widely distributed in nature. It is found in fungal cell walls, crustaceans, insect exoskeletons, marine invertebrate exoskeleton, arthropods, and mollusks. It is the second most abundant polysaccharide in nature. Chitin has enormous application potential in agriculture, including eliciting resistance in pl...

Ethylene is a plant hormone that is gaseous in nature and popular for its involvement in fruit ripening as well as plant growth and development are influenced by it. Research innovation in this field has made information available to understand its biosynthesis, action of perception, and mechanism. Methods for estimation of ethylene are very well s...

Plant uses extrinsic factors like air, water, light, and nutrition for the regulation of growth and development. Likewise, it also uses intrinsic factors which are phytohormones, active molecules produced by plant cells vital for embryogenesis, abiotic stress, biotic stress, and reproductive development. From classified hormones, the brassinosteroi...

The rhizosphere, a narrow zone of soil near plant roots, is a hot spot for microbial activity. Rhizosphere microbiota directly or indirectly benefit plants by supplementing nutrients, producing beneficial chemicals, or suppressing pathogens. Plants attract and modulate bacteria within the rhizosphere by releasing exudates. Plants also tend to selec...

In dromedary camels, which are pseudo-ruminants, rumen or C1 section of stomach is the main compartment involved in fiber degradation, as in true ruminants. However, as camels are adapted to the harsh and scarce grazing conditions of desert, their ruminal microbiota makes an interesting target of study. The present study was undertaken to generate...

Background Squamous Cell Carcinoma of horn, also known as horn cancer, is a prevailing type of cancer in cattles especially Bos indicus. It is one of the most prevalent disease in Indian bullocks often resulting in death and huge economic losses to farmers. Here, we have reported the use of targeted exome sequencing to identify variants present in...

Here, we designed a custom panel targeting whole β-casein gene SNPs of zebu and taurine cattle breeds to identify variants and applicability in dairy cattle genotyping. We sequenced two libraries consisting of different pools of primer sets from 95 individuals on the Illumina MiSeq. Consequently, over 92% target regions were amplified and 71 SNPs w...

Horn cancer is most prevalent in Bos indicus and poorly defined genetic landscape makes disease diagnosis and treatment difficult. In this study, RNA-Seq and data analysis using CLC Genomics Workbench was employed to identify biomarkers associated with horn cancer. As a result, a total of 149 genes were found significant differentially expressed in...

Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) was previously considered as a non-functional transcript, which now established as part of regulatory elements of biological events such as chromosome structure, remodeling, and regulation of gene expression. The study presented here showed the role of lncRNA through differential expression analysis on cancer-related co...

Background The aromatic residues of xylanase enzyme, W187, Y124, W144, Y128 and W63 of substrate binding pocket from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens were investigated for their role in substrate binding by homology modelling and sequence analysis. These residues are highly conserved and play an important role in substrate binding through steric hindranc...

Energy security, climate change, and economic development are the driving forces behind the increasing focus on biofuel production worldwide. Lignocellulose can provide ample raw materials for biofuel production, via its hydrolysis and the fermentation of the released sugars. Currently, lignocellulases are often used to catalyze this step, which hy...

l-Asparaginase (3.5.1.1) is an enzyme widely used to treat the acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Two genes coding for l-asparaginase (ansA1 and ansA3) from Bacillus licheniformis MTCC 429 were cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) cells. The recombinant proteins were purified to homogeneity by one-step purification process and further...

A modified and easy method for isolation of intact, good quality genomic DNA from fungal culture is reported. The method was originally designed for the isolation of DNA from plant sample by Kim et al. (1997) which was tried in the present case for the fungal mycelium with slight modification and found worth applying. The main objective of the pres...

With the discovery of molecular markers and marker assisted selection technology, the research has entered into a new era and has made it possible to develop new and more informative PCR-based markers, in-cluding SSR, and to further facilitate the use of mark-ers in tomato breeding. The present study is a step to introduce a new SSR marker (TOM-144...

Heavy metal contamination to the environment is a serious problem in the developing countries due to anthropogenic activities, a threat needs to remediate to sustain the life on earth, technology includes use of microorganisms and dif-ferent plant species. In consideration of biomass, phytoremediation is a very useful techniques above all, can be e...

Heavy metals pollution to water and soils due to anthropogenic activities are threats to living organisms which needs to be tackled with a new emerging technology, referred as phytoremidiation, offers a cost-effective and environmental friendly way for clean up of contaminated areas with exploitation of green plants, which either accumulates or con...