Next Gen Crops for Sustainable Agriculture Agenda

Registration

Welcome Address

Introduction of Resource Persons & Memento Presentation

Card Exchange and Networking Session

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Transformative Rice Breeding:Next Gen Integrated Breeding Initiative
Sanjay K Katiyar, Senior Development Specialist-Technology Transfer, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, India

Achieving Self-Sufficiency in Pulses Production through Crop Improvement and Good Agronomic Practices
Sushil K Chaturvedi, Head-Crop Improvement, ICAR Indian Institute of Pulses Research, India

Agronomics of Mushrooms- Their Production and Consumption
Manjit Singh, Ex-Director, ICAR-DMR, Solan, , India

Agronomic and Crop improvement strategies for Mitigation to Climate Change
Magan Singh, Principal Scientist, NDRI, Karnal, India

Recent Strategies for the Improvement of Tropical Forage Grasses
Vijay K Yadav, Principal Scientist (Plant Breeding) & Head Seed Technology Division, ICAR- Indian Grassland & Fodder Research Institute, India

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Poster Evaluation & Viewing

Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Understanding Abiotic Stresses in Plants: Taming the Untamable
Ashwani Pareek, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Understanding Plant Response under Climate Change: A Genomics Perspective
Anil Singh, Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, India

Emerging Recognition of Silicon and Arbuscular mycorrhizal Fungi as Potential Candidates for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Legumes
Neera Garg, Professor, Panjab University, India

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Peptide Elicitors in Defense Signaling against Biotic Stresses
Ramcharan Bhattacharya, Professor & Principal Scientist, National Research Centre On Plant Biotechnology, India

Engineering Herbicide Resistance in Crop Plants for Effective Weed Management in Agriculture
M K Reddy, Group Leader, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India

Innovation in Agriculture : Using Various Tools to Develop Matching Traits for Better Climate Resilience
L K Pandey, Managing Director, Ananya Seeds Private Limited, India

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Genomics Approaches for Divulging Gene/Genome Regulation and Translational Research for Crop Improvement
Mukesh Jain, Associate Professor, School of Computational & Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Next Generation Genomics of Non-Model Plants: Effort for Genetic Improvement of Commercially Important Bioresources
Ram Kumar Sharma, Principal Scientist, Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, India

The Role of miRNAs in Regulating Salt Stress Responses in Rice
Neeti Sanan Mishra, Group Leader-Plant RNAi Biology, International Center For Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India

Understanding Common bean Domestication and QTLs/Gene Discovery for Key Nutritional Traits in Common bean from North-Western Himalayas
Reyazul Mir, Assistant Professor , Sher e Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, India

Assessment of Genome Size Diversity in Coconut by Flow Cytometry Analysis
Ranjini T N, Scientist- Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-CPCRI, India

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Studying the Molecular Mechanism in which Heavy Fruit Load reduces Next Year Flowering in Fruit Trees
Alon Samach, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Transcriptome Characterization and Expression Profiling: Novel Insights into Cellulose and Lignin Genes of Sugarcane
Lakshmi Kasirajan, Senior Scientist (Plant Biotechnology), ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute , India

Towards C4 Rice; Overexpression of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase, Phosphoenolpuruvate Carboxy Kinase and Carbonic Anhydrase in Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa enhances its Photosynthesis, Productivity and Water Use Efficiency
B C Tripathy, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Phytoglobin, Mineral Nutrient Deficiency and Abiotic Stress in Plants: What we are Learning from Functional Genomic Approach?
Girdhar Pandey, Professor, University of Delhi, India

D-LDH: The Missing Link of Glyoxalase Pathway
Ananda Mustafiz, Assistant Professor, South Asian University, India

Enhancement of Cellulose Content in Eucalyptus tereticornis through Genetic Transformation
M S Reddy, Professor, Thapar University, India

Isolation and Characterization of Novel Microalgae for Lipid Production in Pure Culture and Waste Water
Shaili Srivastava, Associate Professor, Amity University, India

Poster Evaluation & Viewing

Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Larger Picture of Bioinoculants: Shaping up the Microbiome towards Plant Growth Promotion
Shilpi Sharma, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Role of Salicylic Acid in Bacterial Root Colonization in Rice Varieties
Seema Garcha, Assistant Microbiologist, Punjab Agricultural University, India

Characterization of Microbial Diversity associated with Cor Leaf Aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) infesting Wheat Crop
Poonam Jasrotia, Senior Scientist (Entomology), ICAR- Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, India

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Restoring an Evolutionary Lost Trait through the Understanding of Silicon uptake Mechanism in Tomato
Rupesh Deshmukh, Ramalingaswami Fellow (Scientist D), National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, India

Next Generation Yellow Mosaic Virus Resistant Greengram through CRISPR/Cas9 Approach
Mallikarjuna Garladinne, Assistant Professor- Plant Molecular Biology, Agri Biotech Foundation, India

Editing Rice-Genome with CRISPR/Cas9: To Improve Agronomic Traits for Increased Productivity
V Mohan Murali Achary, Principal Investigator, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India

Identification of Loci Conferring Resistance to Albugocandida isolate (AcB1) in Oilseed Mustard Brassica juncea
Latika Bhayana, Research Scholar, University of Delhi, South Campus, India

WRR-BjuD encodes a CC-NB-LRR Protein that Confers White Rust Resistance in Brassica juncea to different Isolates of Albugo candida
Heena Arora, Research Scholar, University of Delhi, South Campus, India

Genetic Mapping of the Serrated Leaf Trait in Indian Mustard (Brassica juncea)
Priyansha Singh, Research Scholar, University of Delhi, South Campus, India

Development of Selectable Marker Free Transgenics of Indian Mustard (Brassica juncea) for Aphid Resistance
Deepa Dhatwalia, Research Scholar, National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, India

Developing Glyphosate Resistant Maize Lines use CRISPR-Cas9 System
Arul T Prakash, Research Scholar, ICGEB, India

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