The Symposium was aimed at advanced biotechnological applications, including CRISPR/Cas based Genome Editing Technology
The ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, Jharkhand in association with the prestigious Plant Tissue Culture Association (India) virtually recently organised an International Symposium on ’Advances in Plant Biotechnology and Genome Editing (APBGE – 2021)’ from April 8 to 10, 2021.
In his address, Dr Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR) encouraged the researchers for understanding the limiting processes of plant sciences using a system biology approach. Accentuating the importance of hardy plant species, the DG urged to utilise them for identifying the novel genes for various traits. Dr Mohapatra stressed continuing the support to Centres of Excellence and capacity building in traditional and advanced Biotechnological approaches.
Sudhir K Sopory, Former Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi urged for harnessing the biotechnological advances to provide unorthodox solutions to the lingering agricultural problems.
The Symposium was aimed at advanced biotechnological applications, including CRISPR/Cas based Genome Editing Technology for developing agricultural and horticultural crops with improved abiotic and biotic stress tolerance and higher yield and quality.
