Pantoea Tagorei

Dec. 24, 2023

Recently, a team of researchers from Kolkata's Visva-Bharati has identified a new species of bacteria which has been named Pantoea Tagorei in homage to Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

About Pantoea Tagorei:

  • It was discovered from soil samples collected in the Jharia coal mines.
  • Characteristics
  • It has unique properties beneficial for plant growth.
  • It not only solubilizes potassium but also replenishes nitrogen and solubilizes
  • The team has conducted experiments by introducing this bacterium to farmers, who have expressed satisfaction with the positive results.
  • Significance: This bacteria marks a significant stride toward fostering environmentally friendly agricultural methods.

Key facts about Rabindranath Tagore:

  • He was a world-renowned poet, litterateur, philosopherand Asia’s first Nobel laureate.
  • He was born in Kolkata on May 7, 1861. 
  • He was popularly known as Bard of Bengal,and 
  • He introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.
  • He was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa.
  • Awards: In 1913he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • He was awarded a knighthood in 1915, but he repudiated it in 1919 as a protest against the Amritsar (Jallianwala Bagh) Massacre.
  • Visva Bharati University, which was known as Shantiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
  • Rabindranath Tagore wrote India's national anthem, Jana Gana Mana.
  • Tagore’s most notable work of poetry is Gitanjali: Song Offerings, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.