Luminous bacterial flora of penaeid shrimps and their environs in semi-intensive culture systems. Ecology of luminous bacteria in penaeid shrimp grow-out systems of West Bengal, India.

Journal of Scientific Research, 6(1), 153–159.Ībraham, T. Multiple antibiotic resistance in planktonic luminous bacteria of Indian penaeid shrimp farms. This review infers that Indian scientists are needed to extend their research on various aspects of luminescent organisms such as biodiversity, genomics, and chemical mechanisms for conservation, ecological, and biomedical applications.Ībraham, T. A detailed checklist of known bioluminescent organisms from India’s marine, terrestrial, and freshwater ecosystems is detailed. In this context, the present review provides an overview of the current understanding of various bioluminescent organisms, functions, and applications. However, the diversity and distribution of luminous organisms and their applications are studied scarcely in the Indian scenario. Over 100 species of organisms belonging to different taxa are known to be luminous in India.

The emission ability of bioluminescence is improved by gene modification, and also, search for novel bioluminescent systems is underway. Consequently, in recent years, bioluminescence-based assays to monitor toxic pollutants as a real-time marker, to study various diseases and their propagation in plants and animals, are developed in many countries. The inception of bioluminescence by Harvey (1952) has led to a Nobel Prize to Osamu Shimomura (Chemistry, 2008) in biological research.

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