{"id":2875,"date":"2023-02-08T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:23:23","slug":"keanumycins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/keanumycins\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanumycins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Keanumycins:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A group of molecules developed by <strong>bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas<\/strong> has proven to have such a strong <strong>antimicrobial effect<\/strong> that researchers have named them keanumycins.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers proved that the substance is effective against both <strong>plant fungal diseases and human-pathogenic fungi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The group of molecules works effectively against the planet pest <strong>Botrytis cinerea<\/strong>, which triggers <strong>grey mould rot in crops<\/strong>, causing massive harvest losses every year.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It also affects fungi that are dangerous to humans, like <strong>Candida albicans<\/strong> and has been proven to be harmless to plant and human cells.<\/li>\n<li>Keanumycins can be an <strong>environment-friendly<\/strong> alternative to chemical pesticides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Pseudomonas?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pseudomonas is a type of bacteria (germ) that is found commonly in the environment, like in soil and water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Bacteria?<\/h3>\n<p>Bacteria are small single-celled organisms which are found almost everywhere on Earth and are vital to the planet&#8217;s ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/keanu-reeves-molecule-keanumycin-8429962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Keanu Reeves\u2019 molecules could protect plants and humans from \u2018bad guys\u2019: Study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keanumycins are a group of molecules developed by bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2875","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\/2875","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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}