Latha Rangan

Dr. Latha Rangan

Professor

+91-361-258 2214 (O) 258 3203 (Lab)   |   lrangan@iitg.ac.in

Key Research Areas: Applied Biodiversity
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Book Chapter


1. Idrishi R.;Shelke R.G.;Singha S.;Rangan L.. Black rice starch: physicochemical characterization and nutritional properties. Non-Conventional Starch Sources: Properties, Functionality, and Applications

Journal Publications


1. Idrishi R.;Singha S.;Rangan L.. Quality characterization, variety discrimination and correlations amongst twelve landraces of black rice of Assam and Manipur, India. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

2. Ghose, A., Gupta, D., Nuzelo, V., Rangan, L. and Mitra S*. Optimization of laccase enzyme extraction from spent mushroom waste of Pleurotusflorida through ANN-PSO modeling: an ecofriendly and economical approach. Environmental Research

3. Senapati, A., Chetri, B.K., Mitra, S., Rahul G Shelke and Latha Rangan. Decoding the complete chloroplast genome of Cissus quadrangularis: insights into molecular structure, comparative genome analysis and mining of mutational hotspot regions. Physiol Mol Biol Plants

4. Borah, P., Rene, ER., Rangan, L. and Mitra, S.*. Phytoremediation of nickel and zinc using Jatropha curcas and Pongamiapinnata from the soils contaminated by municipal solid wastes and paper mill wastes. Environmental Research

5. Sahu, S., Rajbonshi, M.P., Gujre, N., Gupta, M.K., Shelke, R.G., Ghose, A., Rangan, L., Pakshirajan, K. and Mitra, S.*. Bacterial strains found in the soils of a municipal solid waste dumping site facilitated phosphate solubilization along with cadmium remediation. Chemosphere

6. Mitra, S*., Ghose, A., Gujre, N., Senthilkumar, S., Borah, P., Paul, A., &Rangan, L.. A review on environmental and socioeconomic perspectives of three promising biofuel plants Jatropha curcas, Pongamiapinnata and Mesuaferrea. Biomass and Bioenergy

7. Gujre, N., Agnihotri, R., Rangan, L., Sharma, M. P., & Mitra, S*. Deciphering the dynamics of glomalin and heavy metals in soils contaminated with hazardous municipal solid wastes. Journal of Hazardous Materials

8. Gujre, N., Rangan, L., Mitra, S*. Occurrence, geochemical fraction, ecological and health risk assessment of cadmium, copper and nickel in soils contaminated with municipal solid wastes. Chemosphere

9. Singh, A., Bhatt, G., Gujre, N., Mitra, S., Swaminathan, R., Limaye, AM., Rangan, L.. Karanjin. Phytochemistry

10. Gujre, N., Mitra, S.*, Soni, A., Agnihotri, R., Rangan, L., Rene, E. R., & Sharma, M. P.. Speciation, contamination, ecological and human health risks assessment of heavy metals in soils dumped with municipal solid wastes. Chemosphere

11. Borah, P., Gujre, N., Rene, E. R., Rangan, L., Paul, R. K., Karak, T., & Mitra, S.*. Assessment of mobility and environmental risks associated with copper, manganese and zinc in soils of a dumping site around a Ramsar site. Chemosphere

12. Paul, A., Deka, J., Gujre, N., Rangan, L., & Mitra, S.. Does nature of livelihood regulate the urban community's vulnerability to climate change? Guwahati city, a case study from North East India. Journal of Environmental Management

13. Basak, S., Moolam, R. A., Parida, A., Mitra, S., &Rangan, L.. Evaluation of rapid molecular diagnostics for differentiating medicinal Kaempferia species from its adulterants. Plant Diversity

14. Das, R., Shelke, R.G., Rangan, L., & Mitra, S.. Estimation of nuclear genome size and characterization of Ty1-copia like LTR retrotransposon in Mesuaferrea L.. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology

15. Borah, P., Singh, P., Rangan, L., Karak, T. and Mitra, S.. Mobility, bioavailability and ecological risk assessment of cadmium and chromium in soils contaminated by paper mill wastes. Groundwater for Sustainable Development

16. Basak, S., Kesari, V., Ramesh, A. M., Rangan, L., Parida, A., & Mitra, S.. Assessment of genetic variation among nineteen turmeric cultivars of Northeast India: nuclear DNA content and molecular marker approach. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

17. Singh P, Mitra S*, Majumdar D, Bhattacharyya P, Prakash A, Borah P, Paul A, Rangan L. Nutrient and enzyme mobilization in earthworm casts: A comparative study with addition of selective amendments in undisturbed and agricultural soils of a mountain ecosystem. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

18. Mitra, S*., Singh, P., Manzoor, S., Bhattacharyya, P., Bera, T., Kumar Patra, A., Rangan, L. and Borah, P.. Can rice and wheat biochar amendment protect the carbon loss from tropical soils—An experimental study. Environ. Prog. Sustainable Energy

Projects


1. Exploration of Underutilized Amaranthus species for Sustainable Livelihood, Nutritional Security and Climate Resilience of Western Himalayan Region (2022-2025) [Grant amount: Rs 39 lakh, Co-PI.]

Funding Agency : Himalayan Bioresource Mission, DBT, Govt of India
Principal Investigator: Prof Latha Rangan
Co-investigator: Prof. Sudip Mitra
Duration/Starting Year: 2022
Status: Ongoing