{"id":16987,"date":"2023-11-15T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16987"},"modified":"2025-04-05T01:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:53:32","slug":"picocystis-salinarum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/picocystis-salinarum\/","title":{"rendered":"Picocystis Salinarum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Picocystis Salinarum<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a globally widespread picoplanktonic\u00a0green alga of saline lakes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the smallest green algae.<\/li>\n<li>It is found in hypersaline soda\u00a0lake Sambhar, Rajasthan, to survive extreme environments. Though the alga had been widely found in saline-soda lakes around the world, it was spotted for the first time in India only in the Sambhar Lake.<\/li>\n<li>The unique organism\u00a0apparently enhances photosynthesis and ATP synthesis along with chaperone proteins as\u00a0key response to high salinity-alkalinity.<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced photosynthetic activity exhibited by P. salinarum in highly saline-alkaline condition is noteworthy as photosynthesis is suppressed under hyperosmotic conditions in most photosynthetic organisms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Sambhar Lake<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is India&#8217;s largest saline wetland located\u00a0in Rajasthan.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0ephemeral salt lake,<\/li>\n<li>It is also a designated\u00a0Ramsar Site (recognized wetland of international importance).<\/li>\n<li>It represents the depression of the Aravalli Range.<\/li>\n<li>This inland lake receives water from five rivers, namely Samaod, Khari, Mantha, Khandela, Medtha, and Roopangarh.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Algae<\/h3>\n<p>Algae are a diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that range from microscopic single-celled organisms to large, multicellular seaweeds. They are found in various aquatic environments, including freshwater, saltwater, and even in moist terrestrial habitats like rocks and soil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dst.gov.in\/inspire-faculty-fellow-decodes-molecular-mechanism-behind-intriguing-green-alga-surviving-extreme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inspire Faculty fellow decodes molecular mechanism behind intriguing green alga surviving in extreme conditions like saline-soda lakes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picocystis Salinarum is a globally widespread picoplanktonic green alga of saline lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}