Biography:
Dr. Siti Nor Akmar is a Professor in Plant Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). She is also a Research Associate of the Institute of Plantation Studies (IKP), UPM where she was a previous Institute Director (2016 – 2019). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia. She is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Plant Biology, Springer Nature. Her research is on oil palm molecular biology and genomics to study defence response to Ganoderma boninense, phosphate uptake mechanism and improvement of Vit. E. She has published more than 100 journal papers and books.
Title : Unravelling molecular mechanism at early stage of ganoderma boninense infection of oil palm for an effective disease mitigation strategies