{"id":105381,"date":"2026-05-27T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=105381"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:01:50","slug":"interfilum-shuklaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/interfilum-shuklaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Interfilum shuklaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Interfilum shuklaii Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A group of researchers at Catholicate College has discovered a new species of green algae named Interfilum shuklaii from the Western Ghats in Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Interfilum shuklaii<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a new species of<\/span><b> green algae.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in the forests of <\/span><b>Kerala&#8217;s Western Ghats.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>named <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after <\/span><b>Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a test pilot and <\/span><b>astronaut with the Indian Air Force.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to the family Klebsormidiaceae, under the order Klebsormidiales.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is distinguished by features such as a non-striated mucilage envelope and mother cell wall remnants forming a dome-shaped cap.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the<\/span><b> first-ever reported discovery of the genus Interfilum from India.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interfilum has emerging<\/span><b> significance in biotechnology, carbon sequestration, biofertilizer development, and future space life-support systems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to its <\/span><b>stress tolerance and efficient biomass production.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/researchers-discover-new-algal-species-in-western-ghats\/article71024943.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interfilum shuklaii  is a new species of green algae. Read more about Interfilum shuklaii, Discovery, Family, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":105334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7769,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-105381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-interfilum-shuklaii","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105386,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105381\/revisions\/105386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}