St. Aurora's biotech lab maps rare Western Ghats fungi
A student-led team has catalogued 38 fungal species, three of them potentially new to science.
A team of postgraduate students at the Department of Biotechnology has catalogued 38 fungal species from the Western Ghats.
The findings, supervised by Dr. Anitha Varghese, will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. The college's DBT-funded research centre provided sequencing support.
The department plans to make its specimen database openly available for other campuses.