Dr Kamrun Nahar is an Agronomist and Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Management. She earned her PhD degree on Plant Physiology and Biochemistry at the Department of Applied Plant Sciences and Plant Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria.

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Planting Seeds of Sustainability

1. Let’s start with a short introduction and your inspiration behind becoming an Agronomist and a Scientist. Since my early childhood, I was inquisitive about how a tree survives in soil and provides us with flowers and fruits. When I grew up, I gradually started gardening on a small scale […]
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Azolla (Caroliniana): An Aquatic Energy Crop for Remediation of Eutrophic Ecosystems with Prospect of Biofuel Production in Bangladesh

Abstract The Phytoremediation ability of aquatic macrophyte, Azolla as potential biomass, to improve the quality of eutrophic lakes and river water of Bangladesh at lab scale were studied to remove organics, solutes and improving the physicochemical properties of water including pH, DO, EC, TDS, Turbidity and NaCl concentration. In the […]
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Phytoremediation to improve eutrophic ecosystem by the floating aquatic macrophyte, water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes L.) at lab scale

Abstract In this investigation, the ability and effectiveness of the aquatic macrophyte, Pistia stratiotes L. to improve the quality of eutrophic waters were studied at a lab scale by testing across four lake water samples. The removal of salts, solids and improving physiochemical properties including pH, DO, EC, TDS, Turbidity […]
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