Sacred Heart College extends its heartfelt congratulations to K.A. Wafha, Research Scholar, Department of Zoology, on the publication of the research article titled “Comparative taxonomic and functional profiling of rhizosphere and root endophytic bacterial communities in the mangrove Rhizophora apiculata” in Rhizosphere, Volume 57 (2026), Article 101276, published by Elsevier. The article, co-authored with K. Devika Raj, Anas Abdulaziz, and Baby Divya, contributes to the understanding of bacterial communities associated with mangrove ecosystems. Rhizosphere is a Web of Science and Scopus indexed, Q1 journal, with an Impact Factor of 3.9 and CiteScore of 6.7.