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ReviewArchives of microbiology2026

Indigenous actinomycetes of the Himalaya: current knowledge and a bioinformatics perspective on plant growth-promoting and cold-tolerance traits.

Triparna Mukherjee, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Dhruba Bhattacharya, Rudra Prasad Mondal, Sangita Mondal, Abhrajyoti Ghosh

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Triparna MukherjeeDepartment of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN 80, Sector-V, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700091, West Bengal, India. triparnamukherjee1305@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5425-4837
Sanjukta DasguptaDepartment of Biotechnology, Brainware University, Kolkata, 700125, West Bengal, India.
Dhruba BhattacharyaDepartment of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN 80, Sector-V, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700091, West Bengal, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-1305-9528
Rudra Prasad MondalNational Centre for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Sangita MondalDepartment of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN 80, Sector-V, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700091, West Bengal, India.
Abhrajyoti GhoshDepartment of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN 80, Sector-V, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700091, West Bengal, India. aghosh78@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2469-3740

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Indian Council of Medical Research 45/18/2019-PHA/BMS
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Abstract

Biofertilizers used in saleable formulations perform poorly in cold Himalayan regions owing to the suppressed metabolic activity of bioinoculants under low temperatures. Cold-adapted Actinobacteria, as potent plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), emerge as viable cold-active bioinoculants for sustainable nutrient management in high-altitude crop cultivation. This perspective aims to document the Actinobacterial metabolic diversity in the glacier bionetwork lying in the North-Eastern and North-Western Himalayan region. A comparative functional bioinformatics study of plant growth-promoting genes demonstrated distinct clustering of Himalayan versus non-Himalayan strains, driven by alanine/aspartate/glutamate metabolism, geraniol degradation, and pyruvate metabolism. This pioneering genomic differentiation of Himalayan actinomycetes from other cold habitats highlights unique cold-tolerance and plant growth-promoting factors that may target particular functionality for crop cultivation in the extreme glacier environment.

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ActinobacteriaPlant DevelopmentCold TemperatureComputational BiologyHimalayasIce CoverPhylogenySoil MicrobiologyActinomycetesCold-tolerantHimalayan regionPlant-growth-promoting rhizobacteriaSustainability

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