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Item Microbial Volatiles (mVOCs) Induce Tomato Plant Growth and Disease Resistance Against Wilt Pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici(Springer, 2024) Singh P.; Singh J.; Ray S.; Vaishnav A.; Jha P.; Singh R.K.; Singh H.B.Microbial volatile organic compounds (mVOCs) and its potentiality in plant growth and development is still an unexplored area. The in vitro study on bipartite plate showed inhibition of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp lycopersici (FOL) by volatiles of Trichoderma asperellum BHU P1 and Ochrobactrum sp. BHU-PB1 over control. The seed germination and seedling growth was recorded maximum in plant exposed to VOCs of Ochrobactrum sp. in both magenta box (in vitro) and pot (in vivo) experiment. The growth parameters as seed germination, shoot length, root length, fresh weight, dry weight, number of lateral roots and number of leaflets was compared to be higher in microbial volatile metabolites treated plants as compared to control. Disease incidence in T. asperellum and Ochrobactrum sp. volatile treated tomato plants were 43.66% and 41.33%, respectively at 20�days post inoculation (dpi) whereas untreated control showed disease incidence up to 79.16%. GC�MS analysis of volatile metabolite of T. asperellum BHU P1 detected 42 compounds and Ochrobactrum sp. BHU-PB1 detected 50 compounds over PDB and NB control. HPLC analysis of volatile treated tomato leaves showed enhanced concentration of gallic acid, t-chlorogenic acid, rutin, p-caumeric acid, cinnamic acid, ferulic acid, capsacin, salicylic acid, syringic acid and quercetin over control at 0, 48 and 72�h of FOL challenge. Above observations led to the conclusion that tomato roots which perceived the volatiles of Ochrobactrum sp. BHU-PB1 showed better plant growth promotion and enhanced plant defense, revealed by higher phenolic compound production followed by T. asperellum BHU P1 volatile treated plant. � The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023.Item Organic intellectuals from modern India: B. R. Ambedkar and R. M. Lohia on inequality, intersectionality, and justice(Routledge, 2024) Jha P.; Christiansen C.O.This article revisits the intellectual history of inequality in the thinking of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891�1956) and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (1910�1967). Both were pivotal figures in the intellectual history of inequality in colonial and postcolonial India. Yet little work has been done to systematically juxtapose the two and their thinking on inequality. This article offers a first comparison, arguing that their ideas on inequality can be seen as the emergence of a unique, Indian version of what, in this article, we term �organic intersectionality.� We build this argument on four claims. First, both were organic intellectuals whose thinking was molded in the marginalized groups from which they arose, but whose ideas developed in unique and organic ways. Second, both had a unique eye to the intersectional and holistic character of Indian inequality, cutting across caste, class, race, and gender. Third, their thinking grew from a deep engagement with religion, which they saw as both legitimizing and delegitimizing inequality. Fourth, both these figures exemplify postcolonial hybridity and thus stand in contrast both to a diffusionist approach whereby ideas are simply diffused from the West to the East, and to a nationalized, self-contained, or decolonial history of ideas. � 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Item Thinking Inequality Through Socialism in Modern India (1920�1980): Narayan, Lohia and Chattopadhyay(Taylor and Francis, 2024) Jha P.Socialism in India, as an important intellectual tradition, has been a central interlocutor in the more significant debates on normative concerns, especially on inequality. Its presence was crucial during the nationalist struggle for independence and in post-colonial formative years, in the debates on inequalities and nature of development (1930�1970s). This article engages with a specific strand of Socialism (Oppositional Socialism), in the writings and works of Dr Jayaprakash Narayan, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia and Kamla Devi Chattopadhyaya and their position on inequality in India and the world. In ways tracing solutions from within, through tropes of indigenity, via concepts and frameworks, and providing alternative visions for resolution of inequality in India and globally. Narayan�s invocation of Sarvodaya, Lohia�s intersectional reading through the lens of caste, class and gender along with Chattopadhaya�s decentralised and gendered framework aids in understanding the rationale for choosing Democratic Socialism as a significant interlocutor in the resolution of inequality for post-colonial societies. � 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
