2026

Filling the Gap in Global Morphotype Set of Filamentous Cyanobacteria: A Novel Case of True Branching in a Non-Heterocytous Cyanobacterium Edaphifilum ginni gen. et sp. nov. (Leptolyngbyales) Isolated from a Semi-Arid Terrain of India

Anuj Kumar Tomer, Sonam Sonam, Nidhi Pareek, Shaubhik Anand, Prashant Singh, Dale A Casamatta, Pawan K Dadheech

**The Novel Halotolerant, Filamentous Cyanobacterium Krienitziella sambharensis gen. et sp. nov. (Nodosilineales, Cyanobacteriophyta) Isolated from an Indian Wetland (Sambhar Salt Lake, India)**

Sonam Sonam, Shaubhik Anand, Nidhi Pareek, Prashant Singh, Dale A Casamatta, Pawan K Dadheech

2025

Polyphasic characterization of 15 heterocytous cyanobacterial isolates from different habitats of India and description of 9 novel species belonging to the genera Desikacharya, Aliinostoc, and Desmonostoc

Sagarika Pal, Aniket Saraf, Naresh Kumar, Harsh Pant, Shaikh Soyeb Akhatar Badruddin, Shaikh Maksood Ali Sajibulla, Shaikh Kalamuddin Nijamuddin, Ambika Prajapati, Utkarsh Talukdar, Niraj Kohar, Arush Singh, Pampi Sarmah, Prashant Singh

**Revision and expansion of the genus Spirirestis (Tolypothrichaceae, Cyanobacteria)**

JR Johansen, BM Jusko, N Pietrasiak, H Alwathnani, N Soliman, A Zhydan, S Peron, M Luknis, K Osorio-Santos, K Řeháková, B Zhang, KE Hasenstab-Lehman, WF Hoyer, S Pal, P Singh

Life on the rocks: polyphasic evaluation of three epilithic cyanobacterial strains isolated from a single rock, with the description of Nostoc sikkimense sp. nov., from the northeastern region of India

Sagarika Pal, Harsh Pant, Naresh Kumar, Priya, Shubham Singh, Nainshi Gupta, Prashant Singh

**Exploring cyanobacteria from diverse habitats of the Konkan region of India, unveiling novel species of the genera Desikacharya, Pseudoaliinostoc, and Chlorogloeopsis using a polyphasic approach**

Harsh Pant, Naresh Kumar, Sagarika Pal, Prashant Singh

2024

**Expanding the cyanobacterial flora of India: Multiple novel species of Nostoc and Desmonostoc from Jammu and Kashmir, India using a polyphasic approach**

Naresh Kumar, Aniket Saraf, Sagarika Pal, Prashant Singh

Two new species of Dulcicalothrix (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) from India and erection of Brunnivagina gen. nov., with observations on the problem of using multiple ribosomal operons in cyanobacterial taxonomy

Aniket Saraf, Prashant Singh, Naresh Kumar, Sagarika Pal, Jeffrey R Johansen

Evaluating the Polyphasic Approach in Cyanobacterial Taxonomy

Sagarika Pal, Naresh Kumar, Harsh Pant, Lira Gaysina, Prashant Singh

Igniting taxonomic curiosity: The amazing story of Amazonocrinis with the description of a new genus Ahomia gen. nov. and novel species of Ahomia, Amazonocrinis, and Dendronalium from the biodiversity-rich northeast region of India

Sagarika Pal, Aniket Saraf, Naresh Kumar, Prashant Singh

2023

**Circumscription of Fulbrightiella gen. nov. and Sherwoodiella gen. nov., Two Novel Genera in the Calotrichaceae (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria)**

Naresh Kumar, Aniket Saraf, Sagarika Pal, Deeksha Mishra, Prashant Singh, Jeffrey R Johansen

Description of Cylindrospermum solincola sp. nov. from Jammu and Kashmir, India and Further Insights into the Ecological Distribution and Morphological Attributes of Cylindrospermum badium

Naresh Kumar, Aniket Saraf, Sagarika Pal, Prashant Singh

2022

**Induction of Iron Stress in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Lines by Siderophore of Aspergillus nidulans Towards Promising Anticancer Effect**

Azmi Khan, Pratika Singh, Archana Chaudhary, Rizwanul Haque, Prashant Singh, Arun Kumar Mishra, Abhijit Sarkar, Amrita Srivastava

**Insights into the phylogenetic inconsistencies of the genus Amazonocrinis and description of epilithic Amazonocrinis malviyae sp. nov. (Cyanobacteria, Nostocales) from Jammu and Kashmir, India**

Naresh Kumar, Aniket Saraf, Sagarika Pal, Deeksha Mishra, Prashant Singh

Cyanobacterial Ecology and Systematics: Introduction of a Polyphasic Approach in Cyanobacterial Taxonomy

Sagarika Pal, Prashant Singh

Phycological exploration of the global biodiversity hotspots of Northeast India: discovery of a new species of soil-dwelling cyanobacteria, Desikacharya kailashaharensis sp. nov

Sagarika Pal, Aniket Saraf, Naresh Kumar, Prashant Singh

Digging deeper into the taxonomy of Cylindrospermum and description of Johanseniella tripurensis gen. et sp. nov. from India

Sagarika Pal, Aniket Saraf, Naresh Kumar, Arush Singh, Utkarsh Talukdar, Niraj Kohar, Prashant Singh

Roholtiella volcanica sp. nov., a New Species of Cyanobacteria from Kamchatkan Volcanic Soils

Lira Gaysina, Jeffrey Johansen, Aniket Saraf, Rezeda Allaguvatova, Sagarika Pal, Prashant Singh

Polyphasic Approach and Cyanobacterial Taxonomy: Some Perspectives and Case Studies

Aniket Saraf, Himanshu G Dawda, Prashant Singh

Cyanoprokaryotes and algae: classification and habitats

Abdullah A Saber, Ahmed A El-Refaey, Hani Saber, Prashant Singh, SJ van Vuuren, Marco Cantonati

2021

Study of Stress-Responsive Genes Effective on Lipid Profiling in Some Newly Isolated Cyanobacteria

Sara Kabirnataj, Ahmad Farhad Talebi, GhorbanAli Nematzadeh, Prashant Singh

Constrictifilum karadense gen. et sp. nov., a new Nostocalean genus from Maharashtra, India

Mahesh Chavadar, Aniket Saraf, Archana Suradkar, Deeksha Mishra, Naresh Kumar, Prashant Singh

**Homology modeling in combination of phylogenetic assortment, a new approach to resolve the phylogeny of selected heterocystous cyanobacteria based on phycocyanin encoding cpcBA-IGS locus**

Ekta Shukla, Prashant Singh, Vinay Kumar Singh, Satya Shila Singh, Arun Kumar Mishra

**Description of hot spring dwelling Mastigocladus ambikapurensis sp. nov., using a polyphasic approach**

Tameshwar Prasad Jaiswal, Sindhunath Chakraborty, Prashant Singh, Arun Kumar Mishra, Satya Shila Singh

Issues in cyanobacterial taxonomy: comprehensive case study of unbranched, false branched and true branched heterocytous cyanobacteria

Deeksha Mishra, Aniket Saraf, Naresh Kumar, Sagarika Pal, Prashant Singh

Cyanobacteria in the polar regions: diversity, adaptation, and taxonomic problems

Prashant Singh, Naresh Kumar, Sagarika Pal

2020

Fortiea necridiiformans sp. nov., a soil-dwelling cyanobacterium from Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve, India

Aniket Saraf, Himanshu G Dawda, Archana Suradkar, Vaibhav Agre, Prashant Singh

**Phylogenetic evaluation of the genus Nostoc and description of Nostoc neudorfense sp. nov., from the Czech Republic**

Aniket Saraf, Himanshu G Dawda, Archana Suradkar, Vaibhav Agre, Prashant Singh

Phylogenetic evaluation of the true-branched heterocytous cyanobacteria and description of soil dwelling Westiellopsis akinetica sp. nov.

Deeksha Mishra, Archana Suradkar, Aniket Saraf, Prashant Singh

**Description of novel species of Aliinostoc, Desikacharya and Desmonostoc using a polyphasic approach**

Sara Kabirnataj, Nematzadeh Ghorban Ali, Talebi Ahamd Farhad, Aniket Saraf, Archana Suradkar, Meisam Tabatabaei, Prashant Singh

2019

Phylogenetic complexities of the members of Rivulariaceae with the re-creation of the family Calotrichaceae and description of Dulcicalothrix necridiiformans gen nov., sp nov., and reclassification of Calothrix desertica

Aniket Saraf, Archana Suradkar, Himanshu G Dawda, Lira A Gaysina, Yunir Gabidullin, Ankita Kumat, Isha Behere, Manasi Kotulkar, Priyanka Batule, Prashant Singh

Identification of some heterocystous cyanobacteria isolated from rice fields of Mazandaran province with emphasis on multi-genic approach

Sara Kabirnataj, Ghorban Ali Nematzadeh, Ahmad Farhad Talebi, Meisam Tabatabai, Prashant Singh

Importance of Cyanobacterial Taxonomy in Biotechnological Applications

Suvendra Nath Bagchi, Prashant Singh

Validation of the genus Desikacharya gen. nov.(Nostocaceae, Cyanobacteria) and three included species

Aniket Saraf, Himanshu Dawda, Prashant Singh

2018

**A calcium-stimulated serine peptidase from a true-branching cyanobacterium, Westiellopsis ramosa sp. nov.**

Neelam Dubey, Prashant Singh, Suvendra Nath Bagchi

Preliminary data about algae and cyanobacteria of volcanic soils on Kuril Island

KV Ilchibaeva, DF Kunsbaeva, RZ Allaguvatova, AI Fazlutdinova, OV Polokhin, LA Sibirina, AA Gontcharov, P Singh, LA Gaysina

Cyanobacteria in Diverse Habitats

Lira A Gaysina, Aniket G Saraf, Prashant Singh

Desikacharya gen. nov., a phylogenetically distinct genus of Cyanobacteria along with the description of two new species, Desikacharya nostocoides sp. nov. and Desikacharya soli sp. nov., and reclassification of Nostoc thermotolerans to Desikacharya thermotolerans comb. nov.

Aniket Saraf, Himanshu G Dawda, Archana Suradkar, Isha Behere, Manasi Kotulkar, Zaid Muneef Shaikh, Ankita Kumat, Priyanka Batule, Deeksha Mishra, Prashant Singh