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Doctor Pajand's isolated bacteria / fungi can fix the ice surface / ice rink 

Ice-skating/rink with bacteria 

Bakterier kan fixa isyta-ishall

Kolla sambandet med vulkaniska askmoln:

http://www.knivstabygden.se/sigtunabygden/knivsta/bakterier-kan-fixa-isyta-922738.aspx

Låt inte Växter försvinna i en rasande takt

Plants disappear at a tremendous rates !!!.....

Today there is a lot of discussions about bioenergy, climate change and to become less dependent on fossil fuels and investing in organic production. But in what way this should be done?  If we want invest in energy crops, both to reduce oil dependency and to slow climate change, we need to utilize the forest in a sustainable and sensible way. How can we do that when 70% of energy crops have disappeared over the past 10 years. Do you want to know  the cause of plant death ?

Do you know about criteria for sustainable production of bioenergy and annuals crops? Or why diseased plants release more carbon dioxide in the air and their relationship to climate threats (bacteria that are present in the Cloud, Volcanic Ash Clouds), also read my articles on the influence of fertilizer, chemicals and other factors on plants and microorganisms.

Did you know: it is possible to control  wilt diseases (soil borne fungal pathogens) in rapeseed and tomatoes with wood-living microotorganisms (endophytes)  that move inside the plant? There is no chemical agents against the diseases.

 Read:

My articles using endophytic bacteria against wilt diseases are  first published

Control measures available: I published  first in the field, read about it "ENDOPHYTIC BACTERIA"

Since 1940, a large number of plants have died a premature death in Sweden. In 2007, died more than 200 000 ash trees in Sweden and Lithuania. So we need to protect plants / forests from the worst diseases, which is the biggest threat in the biomass as well as annuals crops. Expertise in Plantpathology
is limited in most places in the world.

We can invest in smart energy alternatives: 

Agriculture is responsible for global gas emissions are also affected by climate change. Part of the solution is renewable energy !

Diseases in agricultutral and energy forestry plantations

What  farmers  have to know?
* Knowledge of pathogens/Symptoms appearance
* Choice and Production of tested clone material
* Site selection and soil preparation
* Spacing (single and double row) and planting technique
* Weed and pest control, Planting and harvesting time
* Fertilization, irrigation, thinning, rotation  length and  
    harvest techniques.

What we have to do as advisors?

How to avoid breeding  of wrong clones, passing on diseases to next generation.
* Pay a visit to all willow/poplar/energy forestry plantations
* Testing commercial clones for health and sanitary control
* Collect samples from different regions for analyzing
* Pathogenicity tests/resistance clones (host genotype)
* Factors (temp, nutrients, chemicals, antibiotics cold storage (electrolyte leakage….) affecting pathogens in field and laboratory (increasing/diminishing population density).

* Interactions/correlation between mos responsible for damage of willow and poplar (rust fungi, insects and bacteria).
* Mutant deficient pathogenicity (recombinant) for biological control.
* Regulating genes (Quorum Sensing signals) for biological control of pathogens (regulating population density).
* Finding genetic markers for stable breeding program.
 
För att öka produktion av jordbruks och energigrödor då måste vi ställa krav på ökat skydd mot sjukdomar. Det gäller inte bara att begränsa fossila bränslen, utan också att tänka på de produkter som tillverkas av fossil råvara (t.ex. elektroniska prylar, plast, möbler, lång distans transporter m.m). Det är frågan om väldigt  mycket produktion av snabbväxande växter. Men Växtsjukdomar idag är det största hotet i odlingar so leder till  stoldöd, starkt produktionsnedsatta bestånd, orsakats av iskärnebildande bakterier i kombination med frost. Ett omfattande och avancerat karaktäriserings- och identifikationsarbete har genomförts av oss (se bildgalleriet) för att klassificera de isolerade patogenerna med avseende på typ (släkte, species, biovarietet etc), INA-egenskaper, patogenicitet på olika Salix-kloner. Alarmerande är att våra undersökningar i Estland, Litauen. det finns  ett negativt samband mellan gödsling och stolsdöd. 
Bli mindre beroende av fossila bränslen kräver produktion av mycket friska växter. Vi kan minska nettoutsläppen av växthusgaser och uppnå 49 % förnybar energi i Sverige till 2020. Vi kan uppnå målet genom att erbjuda en paket/planlösning, som innefattar identifieringar av växtsjukdomar, skötsel, näringsbehov, planeringsstrategi, användning av skördemaskiner, patogenitets/immunitetstester, hälsokontroll och val av klimatanpassade växtmaterial för olika geografiska områden. 

Energigrödor inte bara förnybara energi utan kan användas till mycket annat:
rengöra marken/vatten från giftiga ämnen, planteras i staden för att attrahera fåglar och turister eller planteras på förskolor och skolor för att förbättra miljön för barnen. Det finns alltså många goda skäl att skydda och bevara odlingen av snabbväxande Salix.

 Växt/markskydd–Mikrobiologi

Plant pathology & microbiology

 Doktor Pajand Nejad (specialist i växtskydd, agronom, biolog),
Medlem I den internationella bioenerigi och växtpatilogi-gruppen är rådgivare för etablering av bioenergi och annuella jordbruksgrödor i Sverige och andra  länder.

Ph.D in Plant pathology, M.Sc in agronomy and M.Sc in biology/ microbiology consultant and agricultural advisor

Also check out my other sites with lots of scientific, theoretical and applied basis in the fields, greenhouses and labs

MikrobiologiKonsult HB

http://www.mikrobiologikonsult.dinstudio.se/

http://daisie.ckff.si/show_expert.php?eid=8026&search=

Länken till  Working Party meeting 5th-8th June 2007, Montreal, Canada
http://www.fao.org/forestry/44635/en/

Pajand Nejad också På FAOs begäran medverkat i två kapitel av en bok för uppdatering av energigrödor. Ingen har gjort sedan1963, också hjälpte 3 andra baltiska länder att vara med. Det gällde Industrial Uses of Poplars, Willows, Aspen....in Sweden and  West Asien

Act as  reviewer and editor:

¨In addition to the review of articles and dissertations received invitations to serve as  editor  of NEW E-BOOK OR E-BOOK SERIES from Bentham Science Publishers, from ELSEVIER,  work focusing on renewable energy,  Energy Books, from  publisher of CAB Abstracts for solving problems in agriculture and the environment, from  Agro Energie Canada, from: I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. Book entitled “PGPR- Emergence in Agriculture” focusing on Endophyte in growth promotion and disease suppression.

To find out about international conferences and my role as a  speaker, pay a visit to picture gallery/bildgalleri page 15-16)

Field of expertise

-Plant pathologist, agronomist, biologist, consultant - agri.advisor
-Ecology / Biology
-Genetics
-Quorum-sensing-mediated gene regulation/signaling for energy forestry and agricultura crops

-Management / Control / Biocontrol

-Biological control of soil-borne fungal diseases “Verticillium dahliae; Fusarium oxysporum” using endophytic bacteria (in rapeseed, tomato and cucumber ” this paper is the first to report finding such endophytic bacteria)

Risk assessment
Determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related bioenergy and agricultural crops. And identification of pathogens using traditional and molecular methods
    Taxonomy / Systematics
     Pseudomonadaceae, Enterobacteriaceae, Salicales / Salicaceae, Brassicaceae, Sphingomonadales / Sphingomonadaceae, Xanthomonadaceae

Bakgrund:

Jag har en doktorexamen i växtskydd/växtpatologi, magisterexamen i biologi och i grunden är jag agronom /mark/växt, uas-under britisk system med inriktning lantbruksteknik-agronomi).

Jag har sysslat med identifiering och kontrollåtgätrder av svamp / bakteriesjukdomar, insekter, en del med potatissjukdomar, virus och nematoder. Reste en del i det verkliga livet (sydost Asien “Vietnam” och skrev rapporter om landet jordbruks, te/kaffe plantage, pappersindustri samt landets ekonomiska situationen. Jag har också bott ett par år i Indien, reste runt i landet (all india tour), deltagit i fältarbete, rådgivning, fick träffa framgånsrika jordbrukare, hjälpte till med analys och identifieing av växtsjukdomar samt formulering av andra problem.

Conference contribution

1998. Madras-India.

2002. Aug. 26-29 i Uppsala-Sweden.

(www.forestresearch.co.nz/PDF/07.56Nejadetal.pdf)

2003. February 2-7, Christchurch-New Zealand.

 8th international Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP), (www.forestresearch.co.nz/PDF/00.02Nejadetal.pdf

2004. 29 November-2 December, Santiago, Chile och Argentina- (oral presentation)

2005. 26-27 May, Enköping-Sweden. Joint work of three IPC working parties.

2005. 28-31 May in Tartu, Tallinn-Estland.

Working party meeting on Environmental Application and future fate of willow and poplar  and collaboration internationally.

2005. Sept.  in Kaunas-Lithuania.

Advising Lithuanian farmer, landowner, companies, government for land preparation, importance of energi crops för biofuel, as an alternative to food crpos  and proper using of agricultural machinery.

2006. June 5-9, Nanjing-Bejing-China (oral presentation).

2006. 10Th-14th  July. Invited as a speaker (new pathogens) in ICPPB, held  in Edinburgh-Scotland.

2007. June 3 -8. in Canada (Montreal) and USA (Syracuse- NY) oral presentation  “Environmental Applications of Poplar and Willow Working Party Workshop.

2008. October 26-30 Beijing-China, Invited speaker (from China and FAO) to  present result of my scientific work, also formally prresent  my contribution to two chapters of the new FAO book on poplars, Wilows, Aspens at the 23 ^rd Session.

2010. 18^th January in Abu Dhabi, invited speaker for oral presentation and moderator to host a roundtable discussion in World Future Energy Summit (WFES)

2012. July 30-August 1 in Guangzhou, China, invited Speakers at 2nd Annual International Symposia of Mycology (ISM 4-8): Fungi in Environmental Bioremediation.

2013- July 30 - August 1, 2013. Invited speaker of the 3rd Annual World Congress of Microbes-(WCM-2013) to kick off the conference in Wuhan-Kina.  

2016-November 16-19, 2016. Invited chair / speaker to deliver a speech at session 10-3: Environment Microbiology WCM-World Congress of Microbes (WCM-2016), which will take place in Nanjing, China.

2024-June 12-14, 2024- Invited chair / speaker- 9th Annual World Congress of Infectious Disease in

Budapest, Hungary.

Others

Review articles, book chapters, manuscripts (IPS, IPC, FAO) industrial uses of willow and poplar ( in Sweden and West Asia)

Won first prize in poster competition on international conferences, Appearing in newpapers (just nu 2000 and 2003), and UNT, UT, 2009, Knivstabygden 2010.  Lithuanian TV Sep 2005, SVT 30 Nov 2005

Dr. Pajand Nejad is:

Plant pathologist / Agricultural Advisor / Agronomist / Biologist / Microbiology consultant also interpreter / translator (tolk, översättare)

English-Swedish-Persian-Dari                                                        دکتر پژند نژاد

مشاور علمی، مفسر و مترجم: زبان انگلیسی، سوئدی، فارسی, دری

« Results-oriented professional with a positive demeanour and strong work ethic

 Offering over 20 years experience in research with extensive knowledge in mechanisms of plant pathology and other agricultural findings. Expanded knowledge through experience, continuing education courses and research. Strong moral code of adhering to ethical principles and values in terms of making decisions around general functioning.Actively search for and examine new ideas and technologies and proven ability in planning, designing and conducting experiments under general supervision. Articulate at drafting articles in varied magazines and journals related to research conducted please refer annexure for the reference.

 Areas of Expertise

 Managerial Skills

 «Research Project Management   «Research Process Enhancement  «Strategic Planning & Direction

«Organisational / Lab Administration   «Feasibility Analysis and Estimation  «Development & Optimisation

«Research Development Management «Supervisory Skills «Operational Excellence

Functional Skills

 «Strong Analytical Skills «Tests & Analysis «Research Ethics

«Reporting & Documentation «Methods and Procedures «Operational Risk Evaluation

«Organisational Development Skills «Evaluation & Recommendation «Experimental Procedures

«Evidence-based Practice

Professional Accomplishments

 * Emphasised on identifying new problems and finding its solutions and possibilities to reduce the risk for arrival of new pathogens that might underlie for breeding program as a plant pathologist and researcher

*Developed a diagnostic tool and sanitary practice of cuttings to ensure supply of healthy planting material for resistance in bio energy and annual agricultural crops against severely damaging infections of plant pathogens.

*Improved biotests that could certify sound and resistant plant materials /seeds to diseases (to avoid passing on diseases to new generation) and found out natural or endophytic microorganisms against soil-borne fungal pathognes for increasing production and income of farmers (first published article).

*Developed methods for incorporating resistance to fungal/bacterial infection in the plant-improvement programme and maintained liaisons and effective working relations with groups and individuals, agencies, and the public to encourage cooperative management strategies to develop information and interpret findings

Educational Details

Ph.D in Plant Pathology       1999 –2005             Sweden                                                                                                M.Sc in Biology                     1994 –1995       Sweden                                                                                                    M.Sc in agronomy                 1979 – 1987                                UAS-Bangalore-India                  

Publications

• Cambours, M.A., Nejad, P., Granhall, U. & Ramstedt, M. 2005. Frost-related dieback of willows; comparision of epiphytic and endophytic bacteria of different Salix clones, with emphasis on ice nucleation activity, pathogenic properties and seasonal variation. Biomass and Bioenergy, 28: 15-27. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/986/description

• Cambours. M. A., Heinsoo. K., Granhall. U and Nejad. P. 2005. Frost related dieback in Estonian energy plantations of willow in relation to fertilisation and pathogenic bacteria. Biomass and Bioenergy 30, 220-230.

• Eriksson, B.,  Nejad, P. 1998. Studying on "plant parasitic nematodes, pathogenecity / staining / growing in sterile culture at the laboratory with temperature controlled growth chamber and rearing them on monoxenic plant tissue cultures (SLUs report-manuscript).

• Ganteil, A., Granhall, U and  Nejad, P. 2001. Polymerase Chain Reaction for the detection of ice Nucleation Active Bacteria in the soil of Salix plantations in Sweden (Thesis work, university report).

• Nejad, P. 1994. Global Agricultural Crop Production under different environments - genetic potential and level of sustainability. (with emphasis on oil-seed rape and cereals). Master thesis.  Department of Crop Production, University Agricultural Sciences- Uppsala-Sweden.

• Nejad, P. 1995. Potential of oil-seed rape bacteria to influence Brassica napus L.and Sci. Uppsala- Sweden.

• Nejad, P; and Johnson, A. P. 2000. Endophytic bacteria induce growth promotion and wilt disease suppression in oil-seed rape and tomato. Biological control .Vol 18.No3, PP 208-215.

• Nejad, P., Ramstedt, M & Granhall, U. 2004. Pathogenic ice-nucleation active bacteria in willows for short rotation forestry. Forest Pathology, 34:369-381.

• Nejad. P. 2005. Pathogenic and ice-nucleation active (INA) bacteria causing dieback of willows in short rotation forestry. Doctoral thesis, Swe. Uni. Agr. Sci. No. 24, ISBN 91-576-7023-4.

• Nejad, P., Granhall. U. and Ramstedt. M., 2005. Factors influencing pathogenic and Ice-Nucleation Active (INA) bacteria isolated from Salix plants, soil and litter. (journal of Agricultural Technology, Vol. 1 Number 2,  p. 207-222).

• Nejad. P., Ramstedt. M., Granhall. U., Roos. S. and McIvor I. 2006. Biochemical characterization and identification of ice-nucleation active (INA) willow pathogens by means of BIOLOG Microplate, INA gene primers and PCR based 16S rRNA analyses. JPDP no 3 (113), pp 97-106.

• Nejad, P., & Ramstedt, M. 2006. Presence of Quorum-Sensing-Mediated Gene Regulation in Pathogenic Ice-Nucleation-Active (INA) Bacteria. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Volume 22, No 12 (22) , pp. 1373-1375(3).

• Olsson, T., Vinichuk, M., Wennman, P., Granhall, U and Nejad, P. 2003. Influence of growing temperature, incubation time and growth limiting factors on pathogenic and INA bacteria from Salix plants, soil and litter (thesis work, university report report).

• Laurent, F., Nejad, P., Granhall, U. 2006. Isolation and effects of pathogenic INA bacteria on resistance, medium and susceptible Salix clones in correlation with QTL for breeding purpose (SLUs report).

unpublished / manuscripts

• Induction of systemic resistance of cucumber  to bacterial disease Pseudomonas syringae and aphides using selected specific endophytic bacteria.
• Colonization competence, movement of PGPR bacteria in plants, using as capsule formualton against fungal wilt pathoges, in laboratory and  greenhouse condition.
• Effect of cold storage duration on pathogenic ice-nucleative activity and  variability among bacterial species (manuscript).
• Biological control of frost injury in willows  using antagonistic INA - (minus) detection mutant strains of P.syringae, Erwinia,  X. campestris and  P. fluorescens.
• Effects of pathogenic INA bacteria on resistance, medium and susceptible Salix clones in correlation with QTL for breeding purpose.
• Phytoremidiation of contaminated soils using energy crops,  endophytic degrading bacteria and fungi.

• Biological control  of Gremmeniella abietina in Aleppo   

         pine using endophytic organisms (Univ. Valladolid-Spain) 

Two well-known climate scientist "Kerry Welsh and Helen Ahern" rewarded for their work in the UK are using my materials and specific designed primer to see if their bacteria from cloud have ice-genes. Scientists from  Polar Science Center at the Applied Physics Laboratory (Earth and Space) USA, showed interest to test and compare my ice bacteria with their isolated sea-ice bacteria for high-resolution ice nucleation spectra: implications for cloud formation and life in frozen environments.

Ice is the result of a liquid (water) becoming a solid (ice) by an event called nucleation

Once ice has formed the ice crystals accumulate moisture and grow in size and mass until they fall as either rain or snow depending on the temperature of the atmosphere near the ground.

The Earth is divided into six principal climatic zones depending on seasonal temperature and variation in precipitation pattern and physiography. In each case the ice nuclei content followed the climatic trend.

Possible future collaboration

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Had also in mind to isolate bacteria / microbes  as”microbial cleaning  agent” (with Russian Scientist) to use for clearing of waste oil. Dr. Darren Malek from petroleum technology/oil production in the USA on his visit in Sweden suggested me to isolate microbes for increasing production of oil. According to him only  50%  of oil is extracted and the rest is  remained in reservoir. The idea was to inject bacteria into reservoir to replace polymer and water. It depends on how,  when and where to isolate mos “microorganisms which can stand  all environmental impacts”.