Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee, Bo Eng Cheong, Khanam Taslima, H. Kausar et al.
A simple, fast, repeatable and less laborious sample preparation protocol was developed and applied for the analysis of biocontrol fungus Trichoderma harzianum strain FA1132 by using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The match factors for sample spectra with respect to the mass spectra library o...
Saleh Ahmed Shahriar, Nazrul Islam, Charles Ng Wai Chun, Parwinder Kaur et al.
The fungal species belonging to the genus Trichoderma has been globally recognized as a potential candidate of biofertilizer and biocontrol agent to prevent devastating soil-borne fungal pathogens and enhance growth and productivity of agricultural crops. The antagonistic activity of Trichoderma to ...
Saleh Ahmed Shahriar, Nazrul Islam, Charles Ng Wai Chun, Abdur Rahim et al.
Protecting food crops from viral pathogens is a significant challenge for agriculture. An integral approach to genome-editing, known as CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR associated protein 9), is used to produce virus-resistant cultivars. The CRISPR/Ca...
Rabiul Alam Roni, Md. Nasir Hossain Sani, Sirajum Munira, Md. Abdul Wazed et al.
Micronutrient deficiency is raising concern worldwide, especially among children and pregnant women in Africa, Southern Asia, and certain developing countries, posing a significant risk to the nutritional status. This study aimed to develop cake fortified with Moringa leaf powder (MOLP), ripe banana...
Saleh Ahmed Shahriar, Asmaul Husna, Terna Tersoo Paul, Most. Nurjahan Khatun Eaty et al.
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a popular nutritious vegetable crop grown in Malaysia and other parts of the world. However, fungal diseases such as anthracnose pose significant threats to tomato production by reducing the fruit quality and food value of tomato, resulting in lower market prices ...
Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee, Gan Jet Hong, Melvin, Md. Mizanur Rahman
Md. Shafiqul Islam, Vijay Kumar Subbiah, Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee
Ceratovacuna lanigera Zehntner (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is a destructive insect pest of sugarcane that is responsible for reducing the quality, yield, and sugar content. Ecofriendly methods of pest control, such as the use of biological control, is encouraged since it does not exhibit the harmful effe...
Mohammad Munir Hossain, Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee, Vijay Kumar Subbiah
Bast fiber plants require a post-harvest process to yield useable natural cellulosic fibers, denoted as retting or degumming. It encompasses the degradation of the cell wall’s non-cellulosic gummy substances (NCGs), facilitating fibers separations, setting the fiber’s quality, and determining downst...
Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee, Soon Guan Tan, Umi Kalsom Yusuf, Nur Fatihah Hasan Nudin et al.
Trichoderma species are commercially applied as biocontrol agents against numerous plant pathogenic fungi due to their production of antifungal metabolites, competition for nutrients and space, and mycoparasitism. However, currently the identification of Trichoderma species from throughout the world...
Md. Shafiqul Islam, Vijay Kumar Subbiah, Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee
Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are regarded as viable alternatives to insect pest control chemicals that contain a large amount of protease enzyme, which degrades the proteinaceous substances in insect cuticles. The aim of this study was to evaluate the field efficacy of protease-producing EPF against...
Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee, Kobun Rovina, Laila Naher, Kenneth Francis Rodrigues et al.
Fungus-growing termites cultivate species of the mutualistic basidiomycete genus Termitomyces on a substrate called the fungal comb. Identification of fungal species based on morphological features is complicated, tedious, and prone to errors. As an alternative, nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences consi...
Mohammad Munir Hossain, Vijay Kumar Subbiah, Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee
A degumming approach is used in this paper with alkalophilic pectinase-producing bacteria (APPB) and two sources of water solvents to address the existing conventional water retting complexities of kenaf. The incorporation of APPB was confirmed based on their retting feasibilities and multiple cell-...
Mohammad Munir Hossain, Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee, Vijay Kumar Subbiah
Concurrent eutrophication and scarcity of water have made the difficulties for kenaf retting; hence, seawater (SW), freshwater (FW), and municipal wastewater (MTW) were assessed for kenaf retting feasibility. SW retting liquor showed highest 1.39 × 108 CFU/mL bacterial loads on the 5th day, compared...
Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee, Weng Yan Yee, Khanam Taslima, Nur Fatihah Hasan Nudin et al.
Termitomyces represents a very poorly known genus of fungi whose essential characteristic is that all representatives of the genus are cultivated by termites (Macrotermitinae) in their nest. Many species of Termitomyces commonly form fruiting bodies which develop from fungus combs within the nest. I...
Saifullah Omar Nasif, Shafiquzzaman Siddiquee
Brinjal is one of the most popular solanaceous vegetables worldwide because of its nutritive and nutraceutical values. In recent decades, brinjal cultivation has been experiencing increased biotic and abiotic stresses due to the climate changes, which had affected the cultivation practices, growers’...