http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/strict-biodiversity-laws-prevent-indian-scientists-sharing-new-microbes-world

Klebsiella indica, isolated from the surface of a tomato, is one of the few microbial species reported by Indian researchers this year.

Praveen Rahi spent the better part of the past 3 years identifying and describing a new species of a nitrogen-fixing bacteria he discovered on peas cultivated in the mountains of northern India. But it could take years for Rahi, a microbial ecologist at India’s National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), to get the new species validated and officially named—if he doesn’t get scooped.