Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 8: A team of researchers and students from School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), Katra actively participated at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Plant and Environmental Sciences, organized at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
The conference brought together leading academicians, researchers, and industry experts from India and abroad; to deliberate on emerging trends in plant sciences, environmental sustainability, and biotechnological innovations.
The SMVDU team from the Tissue Culture Lab, Biotechnology, presented their ongoing research work carried out on selected native medicinal plants of the region. The team shared their recent progress in plant tissue culture, conservation methods, phytochemical studies and reports on novel and memory enhancing properties.
The experimental research at the Lab mainly focuses on selected medicinal plants known for their antidiabetic, hepatoprotective metabolites responsible for antidiabetic activity to better understand their therapeutic potential is one of the major finding from the team, besides being actively involved in vitro regeneration, propagation and devising methods for enhancing the metabolites contents of these medicinal plants under controlled laboratory conditions.
They are also exploring how the levels of key secondary metabolites get altered during in vitro growth under the influence of abiotic and biotic elicitors, helping to understand whether such techniques can be scaled up to commercial levels. The team is also conducting studies on molecular aspects of the plant samples collected from different regions of Jammu and Kashmir to explore their diversity and variation in range of metabolite production.
The scholars Abhishek Bokadiya and Nandita Sharma working under the guidance of Prof Sharada M Potukuchi, whose mentorship and academic leadership have been instrumental in advancing high-quality research in medicinal plant biotechnology at SMVDU made Oral Presentations.
They were also accompanied Poster Presentations made by budding PG students – Palveen Kour, Madhu Sharma, Vishali and Vikas Taak (DBT supported student).
Follow our WhatsApp channel
