| Presentations for International Conference on Biotechnology Based Sustainable Agriculture, on Saturday, December 19 2009, New Delhi, India |
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Conference Agenda |
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Opening Session |
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Welcome Address of
Mr. D H Pai Panandiker, Chairman |
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Can Biotechnology Promote Sustainable Farming in India? by Dr. C S Prakash, Professor, Plant Molecular Genetics, Tuskegee University, USA |
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Session 1 : Dynamics of Sustainable Agriculture |
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Conservation Agriculture by Dr. R P Singh, Executive Secretary, Indian Agricultural Universities Association. New Delhi |
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Biotech Farming by Dr. Manjit Singh Kang, Vice Chancellor, Punjab Agricultural University. Ludhiana |
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Session 2A : Recent Developments in Agricultural Biotechnology-Transgenic |
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Biotechnology and Enriched Nutrition by
Prof. Swapan Kumar Datta, Deputy Director General, Crop Science, ICAR, New Delhi |
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Herbicide Tolerance & Insect Resistance by Dr. Jay G Varshney, Director, Directorate of Weed Science Research, ICAR, Jabalpur |
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Genetic Engineering for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops by Dr. K C Bansal, Professor and Principal Scientist, National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi |
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Session 2B : Recent Developments in Agriculture Biotechnology-Non Transgenics For Enhancing Conventional Breeding |
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Marker Assisted Selection for Crop Improvement by Dr. P K Gupta, Hon. Emeritus Professor & INSA Senior Scientist, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, CCS University, Meerut |
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Plant Genomics and Emerging Techniques by Dr. Jitendra P Khurana, Professor and Coordinator (UGC-SAP), Dept. of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi |
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Session 3 : Safety Assessment for Food and Feed Derived from GM Technology |
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Preclinical Toxicology of GM Crops by Dr. B Sesikeran, Director, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad |
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Codex Alimentarius Framework for Food and Feed Safety of Genetically Modified Plants: Best Practices in light of the latest science by Dr. Boonyanath Nathwong, Member, Food Science and Technology Association of Thailand, Bangkok |
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Consumer perceptions of food biotechnology in Asia by Dr. George Fuller, Executive Director, Asian Food Information Center, Bangkok |
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Session 4 : Networks for Safety Management and Knowledge Sharing With Special
Reference to BT Cotton and BT Brinjal |
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Laboratory networking for safety management and knowledge sharing with special reference to Bt Cotton and Bt Brinjal by Dr. Varsha Srivastava, Staff Scientist and In-charge, Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad |
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Network of Laboratories for Safety Assessment of GM Crops, Issues and Challenges by Dr. Vibha Ahuja, General Manager, Biotech Consortium of India Ltd., New Delhi |
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Conference Recommendations |
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