Identification of microcystin producing Cyanobacteria by PCR based method.

Rahul Anand; Bhavana Singh; Divya Kumari; Deepak Kumar

Volume : VI, Issue : XII, December - 2016

Identification of microcystin producing Cyanobacteria by PCR based method.

Rahul Anand, Bhavana Singh, Divya Kumari, Deepak Kumar

Abstract :

Cyanobacterial blooms are one of the major environmental concerns that have worried people of a significant number of places worldwide. The blooms can prove to be hazardous to both the aquatic as well as nearby non aquatic lives, including humans. Microcystins are the most widespread cyanobacterial toxins and can bioaccumulate in common aquatic verteates and inverteates such as fish, mussels, and zooplankton. Microcystin primarily affect the liver (hepatotoxin), but can also affect the kidney, and reproductive system. Several places in Bharat (India) have reported deaths of aquatic lives due to cyanobacterial blooms. The microcystin (mcy) gene cluster includes various mcy genes that are mcyA, mcyB, mcyC, mcyD, mcyE and mcyG. The current study intends to identify microcystin producing cyanobacteria in various water bodies of Ranchi, Jharkhand, by PCR based detection of mcyE gene sequence