The full GPB 2023 scientific program across 2 days — keynotes, oral presentations, and posters. Talks are ordered by program prominence within each day.
Day 1
- Keynote
Strategies to improve heavy metal tolerance in legumes: metal-tolerance genes and the role of tolerant rhizobia
Jose Pueyo · CSIC, Spain
Legumes play a key role in sustainable agriculture. Mineral nitrogen deficiency is an important limiting factor for plant growth in arid and semi-arid regions, and rhizobia-legume symbioses are the primary source of…
- Keynote
Environmental health impact assessment (EHIA) processing investigations during the post covid world for an efficient plant biology and biotechnology towards sustainable development
Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer · Techno-Economic-Environmental Study and Check Consultancy Services, India
Many plant biology and biotechnological industries are increasing to fight the pandemic. Sustainable development is a kind of development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability and…
- Keynote
High, medium and low cover gradient of vallisneria spiralis in association with plant species diversity and phenology of five tropical ponds near kolkata, India
Gautam Mukhopadhyay · Derozio Memorial College, India
Vallisneria spiralis , a widespread but least concern aquatic macrophyte as per red list of IUCN (2019). The species is well known oxygenator plant in our aquarium. V. Spiralis is reported to be more acceptable rosette…
- Keynote
Transformative innovation on plant-based solutions to satisfy core-human needs can Shift the needle on climate change
Carlos Ruiz Garvia · UN Climate Change, Adaptation Division, UNFCCC, Germany
At the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2022, government delegates and a variety of experts highlighted crucial innovative approaches to tackle climate change notably in the areas of…
- Keynote
Challenges on identification and management of bacterial pathogens of plants: A case study of an emerging bacterial disease of cucurbits
Mohammad Babadoost · University of Illinois, United States
Bacterial spot of cucurbits, caused by Xanthomonas cucurbitae, is an emerging disease in cucurbit growing areas throughout the world. The pathogen can infect all cucurbit crops, but its major hosts are pumpkins and…
- Keynote
A new approach that focuses on the basal immunity mechanism to slow down the development of antimicrobial resistance in plants
Ravinder Goyal · Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been on the rise in both plants and animals. A continuous use of antimicrobial agents such as pesticides against plant pathogens creates selection pressure for the pathogens to mutate…
- Oral
Abscisic acid promotes jasmonic acid biosynthesis via a 'SAPK10-bZIP72-AOC' pathway to synergistically inhibit seed germination in rice (Oryza sativa)
Yifeng Wang · China National Rice Research Institute, China
Seed germination is coordinated by diverse phytohormones. Abscisic acid (ABA) and Jasmonic acid (JA) both inhibit seed germination, but their interactions during this process remains elusive. Here, we report the…
- Oral
Role of microbial secondary metabolites in the management of plant diseases
Kannan Chinnaswami · ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research, India
Synthetic chemical pesticides are the first choice for the farmers when it comes to protect their crops against pests. This is mainly because of their efficiency in killing the pests, rapidity in effect and easy…
- Oral
Diagnostics tools for detection of citrus yellow mosaic virus (CYMV) & citrus greening bacterium (CGB) in sweet orange by multiplex pcr
Kailash Narayan Gupta · Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, India
Citrus is one of the most economically important fruit crops in India. Commercially grown citrus includes sweet orange, acid lime and mandarin. Citrus Yellow Mosaic (CYMV), a viral disease and citrus greening bacterium…
- Keynote
Sustainable development via plant cultivation through in vitro system: A change in scenario
Susmita Shukla · Amity University, India
Plant tissue culture has emerged in such a way that it finely integrates with biotechnology and agricultural systems and being a key enabler in support of many pharmaceutical and industrial outcomes. Since 1902 there…
- Oral
Treatment/prevention of dental caries through the herbal plants and commercial mouth washes
K R Aneja · Kurukshetra University, India
Dental caries (derived from the Latin word -"caries" which stands for decay) also referred to as tooth decay or cavities, are decayed areas of the teeth that develop into tiny openings or holes. It is a term that refers…
- Oral
An assessment of environmental quality loss function deployment for indian double roller cotton ginning environment
Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer · Techno-Economic-Environmental Study and Check Consultancy Services, India
In this paper, an assessment of environmental quality loss function deployment is presented. Indian double roller cotton ginning environmental quality loss function concept that combines resource inputs, product or…
- Oral
Variation and diversity within wild moringa peregrina (forssk.) Fiori; seed size and shape
Mohammad Kamal Abhary · Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Background and Aims: The Moringa peregrina (Forssk.) Fiori is a neglected superfood plant with tremendous medicinal properties, naturally growing at shorelines of the Red Sea region. Limited information is available…
- Oral
Production of bioactive compounds from shoot cultures of endangered and commercially important medicinal plants of himalayas
Hemant Sood · Jaypee University of Information Technology, India
Plant cell culture technologies have made possible the production of a wide variety of pharmaceuticals such as alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids, saponins, monoterpenes, flavonoids and amino acids. The standardization of…
- Oral
Subabul (leucaena leucocephala) clonal forestry: a path forward for solution of fibre resource development to paper industries in India
Om Prakash Shukla · JK Paper Ltd, India
Global Per capita average paper consumption is 57 Kilogram while in India is 13 Kilogram. India is one of the major producers / consumers of paper and pulp products (3 to 4% of global share). Approximately 9.2 million…
- Oral
Unfolding chromosomal diversity in cultivated and wild indian rice
Timir Baran Jha · Maulana Azad College, India
Rice as major source of calories and proteins are consumed by more than half of the world population. Diverse phenotypic and genotypic analysis including its complete genome sequencing has benefitted mankind. However…
- Oral
Biocontrol activity of weed leaf extract against phytopathogenic, phytopthora and fusarium fungi
Rajeev Kumar · Lovely Professional University, India
The leaf extracts of different weed plants such as (Cannabis sativa, Lantana camara, Ageratum conzoides, Parthenium hysterophorus) in different organic solvents (methanol, acetone, ethanol and aqueous) were assessed…
- Oral
Microbes for sustainable future
Tripta Jain · Mohanlal Sukhadia University, India
Our planet Earth and human life are increasingly becoming unsustainable due to modernization that results into harsh environmental changes like loss of biodiversity, climate change, desertification, unbalanced N and P…
- Oral
Cannabis sativa: Studies and trends based on integrated omics approaches
Sirangelo Tiziana Maria · ENEA-Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Italy
Cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.) originated from Central Asia and is distributed to a lesser extent in other areas of the world, thriving in a wide variety of habitats and climates. Two main classifications for this plant…
- Oral
The effect of climatic changes – hail and storm on sunflower hybrids – constanta county, dobrogea area, Romania
Dumitru Manole · SC Sport Agra, Romania
Constanta County had the largest area cultivated with sunflower crop in Dobrogea region in South-Eat Romania in 2019 (23%), 2020 (20.8%), and 2021 (23.4%). Dobrogea is the most drought area in Romania (average rainfall…
- Oral
Development of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) as a new multi-purpose crop in Israel
Lior Rubinovich · Galilee Research Institute, Israel
Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd., Amaranthaceae) is an environmental stress-resilient crop of increasing global importance. Quinoa grains exhibit high nutritional value as they have a high protein level, contain all…
- Oral
Physiological and biochemical determinant of salt stress tolerance in diploid and tetraploid citrus
Bonnin Marie · University of Corsica, France
Polyploid species are generally considered to have better adaptative abilities than diploids. Previous work has shown that phenotypic variations are induced in the aerial citrus plant part related to stress resistance…
- Oral
Mitigation of copper toxicity by calcium and citrate involves the modulation of ascorbate-glutathione cycle and redox status in pisum sativum l. Seedlings
Marouane Ben Massoud · University College Cork, Ireland
The aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of exogenous calcium (Ca) and citrate treatments in the shoots of copper (Cu)-treated pea seedlings. Seeds were germinated in distilled water or aqueous solutions of…
- Oral
Effects of environmental contaminants on lignin biosynthesis in arabidopsis thaliana: implication for biofuel production
Benoit Van Aken · George Mason University, United States
Marginal lands contaminated by anthropogenic pollutants can be turned into fields for biofuel production bringing the combined benefits of reducing dependency on fossil fuel, mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions, and…
- Oral
1H NMR-based metabolomic approach to study Sorghum bicolor crops in view of smart agriculture applications
Ilaria Chiocchio · University of Bologna, Italy
Global population growth, climate changes and resources exploitation make it urgent to develop sustainable and smart agricultural practices. In this framework, an upgraded knowledge of plant-environment interactions is…
Day 2
- Keynote
The most productive potential as a result of adaptation by the balance of hormones of the initial cell of the apex, secondary initial meristems
Vashchenko Viktor Fedorovich · Rlets State University, Russian Federation
The mechanism of initiation of organogenesis and the sequence of growth of branches, leaves, stems still does not have an unambiguous explanation in botany. In crop production, the potential for harvesting is taken into…
- Keynote
Morphological and molecular insights into drought tolerance in chickpea.
Chellapilla Bharadwaj · ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
Chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) is an economically important food legume grown in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Chickpea is cultivated mainly in the rainfed, residual moisture, and restricted irrigation…
- Keynote
Antimycobacterial activity of plant molecules from traditional medicinal plants
V Duraipandiyan · Entomology Research Institute, India
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. TB is major challenges for medical filed to management disease. Such as, currently occurrence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively…
- Keynote
The molecular odyssey during pollination
Subramanian Sankaranarayanan · Indian Institute of Technology, India
Flowering plants have evolved complex molecular mechanisms that ensure successful pollination and seed set. Continuous cell-cell communication between the pollen (male) and cells of the pistil (female part of the…
- Keynote
New biotechologies experiencies: Cannabis spp. as a new form to produce under dry arid ando deserts zones
Edgar Omar Rueda Puente · Universidad de Sonora, Mexico
Arid and semi-arid zones occupy a little more than half of the territory in Mexico. It is estimated that they house some six thousand plant species, of which about 50% are exclusive to our country. The Seris (COMCAAC)…
- Keynote
Plant responses to the stink bug diceraeus furcatus attack: a new pest of corn
Jorge Zavala · University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Over the last decades, Argentine and Brazilian farmers have adopted no-tillage cultivation systems and multiple cropping, which have decreased the abundance of traditional pests, such as Nezara viridula, and favored the…
- Oral
Sago forest conservation for food security and tackling climate change
Gun Mardiatmoko · Pattimura University, Indonesia
One of the causes of climate change is due to deforestation and forest degradation, including damage to sago forests. In terms of the existence of this sago forest, it plays an important role in food security and…
- Oral
Cultivation of traditional rice landraces for human health and food security
Subbalakshmi Lokanadhan · Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India
In Asia, more than two billion people are getting sixty to seventy per cent of their energy requirement from rice and its derived products. Many rice varieties with medicinal value are cultivated and used in certain…
- Oral
Jackfruit ( artocarpus heterophyllus lam.) - a multipurpose tree for sustainable development in tropical regions of india and the globe
K Narayana Gowda · International Society of Extension Education (INSEE), India
Jackfruit is native to India, with its origin from Western Ghats and spread across several states of South, East, West and North Eastern parts of India and many tropical countries. It grows as wild tree in its habitat.…
- Oral
Jackfruit ( Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam) - A multipurpose tree for sustainable development in tropical regions of India and the globe
S Shyamalamma · University of Agricultural Sciences, India
Jackfruit is native to India, with its origin from Western Ghats and spread across several states of South, East, West and North Eastern parts of India and many tropical countries. It grows as wild tree in its habitat.…
- Oral
Genetic diversity of horticultural crops of North East India and their exploitation potential
B N Hazarika · Central Agricultural University, India
The North-East India is a part of both Himalaya as well as Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspots in the world. It has the richest reservoir of plant diversity in India and is one of the ‘biodiversity hotspots’ of the world…
- Oral
Management of phytonematodes in potato in india
Davabhai Jethabhai Patel · Anand Agricultural university, India
Global production of potato is about 320 MT of which China (72 MT), Russia (35 MT) and India (26 MT) are the major producers. Plant-parasitic nematodes are a significant factor limiting potato production and tuber…
- Oral
Paradigm of adaptation and agro-climatic potential, growth and development of an intact plant by secondary metabolism
Vashchenko Viktor Fedorovich · Rlets State University, Russian Federation
Growth and development are controlled by the initial cell of the apex by a complex hierarchy, a stepped network of integral signals from the balance of hormones of stimulants and inhibitors, their level in ontogenesis…
- Oral
The dependency of latex production on sex expression of Carica Papaya L
Udari Rathnathunga · University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Papaya (Carica papaya L.) produces fruits throughout the year which are highly beneficial during pharmaceutical production for their nutraceutical and antimicrobial properties. It is a gynodioecious plant that has three…
- Oral
Soil salinity problem in bangladesh and its alleviation by morphometric and ssr marker-based screening for salinity tolerance in local and exotic wheat genotypes
Muhammad Shahidul Haque · Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh
Bangladesh is an agrarian country. Agriculture here is vulnerable to various climatic and edaphic factors. Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting crop yield. The intensity and extent of soil…
- Oral
A Proof of Parthethenium hysterophorus is an invasive and allelopathic weed in our sustainable agriculture under climatic condition of Pakistan
Iqtidar Hussain · Gomal University, Pakistan
Parthenium (Parthethenium hysterophorus L.) is one of the most aggressive herbaceous weeds of the Asteraceae family. It is widely distributed, almost across the world and has become the most important invasive weed.…
- Oral
Introducing new promising varieties of zamin and duru-gavkhar-4 into the textile industry and achieving high-quality textile industry products from those varieties
Mamaruziev Abdukayum · Institute of Genetics and Plants Experimental Biology, Uzbekistan
During our presentation, a new medium fiber cotton variety Zamin (G.barbadense L.) and thin fiber high-yielding, disease and pest-resistant Duru-Gavkhar-4, created in the laboratory "Cotton Genetics, Selection, and Seed…
- Oral
The role of chitosan priming in induction of GABA shunt pathway during wheat (Triticum durum L.) Seed germination under salt stress
Nisreen AL Quraan · Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Soil salinity leads to a reduction in plant growth, germination, relative water content, and reduces production of wheat plants worldwide. Chitosan showed a positive effect on plant growth, development and improve plant…
- Oral
STRP, a novel Arabidopsis protein with a protective role against abiotic stresses
Sabina Visconti · University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Plants, as sessile organisms, are constantly exposed to critical environmental conditions such as drought, extreme temperatures, and salinity that negatively affect their growth and development, reducing crop…
- Oral
Use of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria to foster P availability and promote maize growth in P-deficient soils
Sofia Pereira · Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Portugal
The agricultural sector is facing several challenges related to climate change and decrease of soil fertility, which is impacting the production of staple food crops. To meet the global food demand and overcome the…
- Oral
Induction of systemic resistance to tobacco mosaic virus in tomato through foliar application of bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain TBorg1 culture filtrate
Dalia Gamil Aseel · Arid Lands Cultivation Research Institute (ALCRI), Egypt
The application of microbe-derived products as natural biocontrol agents to boost systemic disease resistance to virus infections in plants is a prospective strategy to make agriculture more sustainable and…
- Oral
Phosphate regulation of arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis in rice
Debatosh Das · University of Missouri-Columbia, United States
Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is a mutualistic symbiosis between plant roots and Glomeromycotina fungi, which is activated under low but inhibited by high phosphate. The effect of phosphate on AM development has been…
- Keynote
Climatic changes and forest trees and shrubs adaptation in the future time
Hajri Haska · Agricultural University, Albania
The earth planet, the environment and the different forms of life have had a close relationship at every stage of human development, they have such correlations so significant that in these last decades there is talk of…
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