Klebsiella indica, isolated from the surface of a tomato, is one of the few microbial species reported by Indian researchers this year.
By Pratik PawarPraveen Rahi spent the better part of the past 3 years identifying and describing a new species of a nitrogen-fixing bacteria he discovered on peas cultivated in the mountains of northern India.
But it could take years for Rahi, a microbial ecologist at India’s National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), to get the new species validated and officially named—if he doesn’t get scooped.Syed Dastager, a microbiologist at the country’s National Chemical Laboratory, faces a similar problem.