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GPB 2023

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Jose Pueyo
Keynote Presentation
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 fixed nitrogen in such areas. The introduction of legumes and th [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer
Keynote Presentation
Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer, Bihar Institute of Public Administration & Rural Development, 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 efficiency of future generations to meet their own needs. Environment [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Gautam Mukhopadhyay
Keynote Presentation
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 forming type than canopy forming ones in respect to rampant pu [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Carlos Ruiz Garvia
Keynote Presentation
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 energy, food and buildings at Global Innovation Hub (UGIH) dialo [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Mohammad Babadoost
Keynote Presentation
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 winter squash. Leaves and fruits of cucurbits are infected by X. [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Ravinder Goyal
Keynote Presentation
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 and evade the toxic effect. It prompts more usage of the pest [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Susmita Shukla
Keynote Presentation
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 have been tremendous advances in plant culture and their applic [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Yifeng Wang
Oral Presentation
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 identification of a “SAPK10-bZIP72-AOC” module, through [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Kannan Chinnaswami
Oral Presentation
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 availability. However, these chemicals pose serious threat to human [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Kailash Narayan Gupta
Oral Presentation
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 (CGB), a bacterial disease are the two most important disease [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - K R Aneja
Oral Presentation
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 to both the disease and the resulting lesion. It i [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer
Oral Presentation
Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer, Bihar Institute of Public Administration & Rural Development, 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 service cost, target and environmental climatic stewardship varia [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Mohammad Abhary
Oral Presentation
Mohammad 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 about the genetic resources and diversity of this tree, which is [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Hemant Sood
Oral Presentation
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 technologies for the production of plant metabolites through [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Om Prakash Shukla
Oral Presentation
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 tonnes wood out of total 20 million tonnes is used by Indian p [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Timir Baran Jha
Oral Presentation
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, in the era of climatic changes and increasing world population [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Rajeev Kumar
Oral Presentation
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 in-vitro for fungitoxic activity against phyto-pathogenic, Phyto [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Tripta Jain
Oral Presentation
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 cycles, water, air, soil pollution and the poor quality of the [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Sirangelo Tiziana Maria
Oral Presentation
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 have been established: fibre crop (hemp), whose woody fibers [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Dumitru Manole
Oral Presentation
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 of 464 mm in the period 1961-1990) and the year 2020 was one [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Lior Rubinovich
Oral Presentation
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 the essential amino acids, are gluten-free and are also rich in [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Bonnin Marie
Oral Presentation
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 and polyploidy. However, information regarding the impact of p [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Marouane Ben Massoud
Oral Presentation
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 CuCl2 (200 µM) for 3 days then in water or Cu or Cu+eff [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Benoit Van Aken
Oral Presentation
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 land bioremediation (phytoremediation). However, prior resear [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Ilaria Chiocchio
Oral Presentation
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 required, and a suitable approach is represented by untargete [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Vashchenko Viktor Fedorovich
Keynote Presentation
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 account the high yield obtained in the variety plot with the [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Chellapilla Bharadwaj
Keynote Presentation
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 condition. Chickpea like several other legumes is highly suscep [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - V Duraipandiyan
Keynote Presentation
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 drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR) are creating problems. Also, cu [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Subramanian Sankaranarayanan
Keynote Presentation
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 flower) is a critical determinant of reproductive success. The stig [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Edgar Omar Rueda Puente
Keynote Presentation
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), an Amerindian people living in the west-central Mexican state [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Jorge Zavala
Keynote Presentation
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 development of some stink bugs of secondary importance, like [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Hajri Haska
Keynote Presentation
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 very real mutual influences between the binomial planet/envi [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Gun Mardiatmoko
Oral Presentation
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 handling climate change in a country. The aims of this research are [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Subbalakshmi Lokanadhan
Oral Presentation
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 pockets in states of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Na [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - K Narayana Gowda
Oral Presentation
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. Now with selection of elite varieties and vegetative propagat [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - S Shyamalamma
Oral Presentation
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. Now with selection of elite varieties and vegetative propagat [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - B N Hazarika
Oral Presentation
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 supporting about 50 % of India’s biodiversit [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Davabhai Jethabhai Patel
Oral Presentation
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 quality in several regions where potato is produced. Overall, para [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Vashchenko Viktor Fedorovich
Oral Presentation
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, which control the appearance of initial cells of secondary me [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Udari Rathnathunga
Oral Presentation
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 sex forms: female, male, and hermaphrodite. Papain is one of [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Muhammad Shahidul Haque
Oral Presentation
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 salinity are increasing day by day in Bangladesh. As a result food [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Iqtidar Hussain
Oral Presentation
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. Thee infestations parthenium have been reported to reduce grain [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Mamaruziev Abdukayum
Oral Presentation
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 Breeding" of the Institute of Genetics and Plants [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Nisreen AL Quraan
Oral Presentation
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 stress tolerance. The current study aimed to examine the eff [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Sabina Visconti
Oral Presentation
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 productivity. To cope with these abiotic stressors, plants have evolved [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Sofia Pereira
Oral Presentation
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 nutrient deficiency in soils, farmers usually apply high doses of [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Dalia Gamil Aseel
Oral Presentation
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 environmentally friendly. In the current study, the rhizobacterium Bacill [....] » Read More

Speaker at Plant Biology and Biotechnology 2023 - Debatosh Das
Oral Presentation
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 observed for many years but mechanisms regulating it under contras [....] » Read More

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