Microflora of Amanishah nala in industrial area of Sanganer, Rajasthan [India]
1991
Srivastava, P.
The Amanishah nala at Sanganer, the industrial area of Rajasthan, in addition to domestic sewage, also receives effluents from textile printing (Sanganeri Prints), paper pulp manufacturing, blue pottery and radiocone making industries. Present study, a part of interdisciplinary field study, deals with microflora, i.e. algal, bacterial and mycoflora. The algal flora, of ca. 20 genera, consisting of Euglenoids (86.37%) Greens (0.15%), Bluegreens (6.61%) and diatoms (6.85%). These algae from organic pollution, resisting environmental stress may be used as "indicators" of pollution and biomonitors of eutrophication. Bacterial flora could be distinguished into gram positive and gram negative types. Microflora included 14 different aquatic fungi, belonging to Deuteromycetes were pathogenic, in addition to nematophagus. The microflora of the Nala stood a witness to the high degree of pollution and posing a threat to the health of man and animal in the vicinity.
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