A three-day-long international conference on the Plant Science and Post Genomic Era (PSPGE) was held in the Sambalpur University (SU) participated by eminent scientists from across the world.
Sources claimed, it is the first ever international conference in the university and totally a unique one jointly organised by the SU School of Life Sciences and New Delhi-based Society for Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.
The scientists opined that utilisation of solar energy amid the population explosion can help in curbing the energy crisis and also the climate change menace worldwide.
While USA-based University of Illinois Professor Emeritus Govindjee inaugurated the conference, convener Prof Basanti Biswal said it was a pride for the university.
Prof Biswal further informed that the facts found after thorough research of the medicinal plants in the Gandhamardhan hill was also placed in the seminar.
The reputed scientists also discussed on 12 different aspects of the life science. The themes of tissue culture and transgenic culture, biology of medicinal plants, photosynthesis, photo morphogenesis and photo receptors, biotic and biotic stress and their adopting mechanism were the subjects of discussions during the three-day-long session.
Information Technology, Nano Technology and Genetically Modified (GM) crops also found place in the conference, the organisers informed.
While Prof Asis Datta of National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi gave the key note address, Prof Masamitsu Wada Kyushu of University of Japan, Prof Bartelome Sabater of University of Alcala, Spain, Prof Stefan Hortensteiner of University of Zurich, Switzerland and Prof Karin Krupinska of University of Kiel, Germany presented their valuable papers on the occasion.
