Jalandhar, 28.-04-23: The School of Bioengineering and Biosciences at Lovely Professional University (LPU) held a two-day international conference on plant physiology and biotechnology (ICPPB) at the campus. Providing & promoting the cutting edge research; the scientifically significant conference covered different aspects for the betterment in agricultural & biotechnology fields and crop improvement, thereof.

Chief Patron of the conference, LPU Chancellor Dr Ashok Kumar Mittal congratulated all engaged in the various proceedings of the conference for making it truly global and result oriented. On this occasion, a 151 paged abstract book containing 147 solid solutions through plants and processes was also released in the esteemed presence of LPU Pro Chancellor Mrs Rashmi Mittal. It was organized by LPUs Division of Research & Development (DRD) and department of Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering.

Inaugural address was made by the Chief Guest, Prof. Sant Saran Bhojwani, Emeritus Professor, Director, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Agra). Secretary for the Plant Tissue Culture Association of India, Padma Shree, Prof Dr Pramod Tandon was the Guest of Honour was chaired & co-chaired by Prof Rakhi Chaturvedi (IIT, Guwahati) and, Prof Ariel D. Arencibia from Catholic University of Maule, Chile.

Here, important discussions were made to provide biotech solutions to boost plant salinity tolerance using the secrets of mangrove trees by Prof Dr Pannaga Krishnamurthyr from National University of Singapore.

Prof Dr Gian Pietro Di Sansebastiano, University of Salento (Italy) informed about plants-based low-cost platform for drugs discovery and screening.

Similarly, during other sessions, Prof Dr Karel Doleal from Palack University (Czech Republic) forwarded research made on new phytohormone derivatives as modern tools for basic and applied research in plant biotechnology from synthesis to analysis and back. Dr Pinky Agarwal, from National Institute of Plant and Genome Research, (NIPGR), talked about factors regulating rice grain size. Dr. Dilfuza Jabborova from Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences also chaired an important session.

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