Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 9: A national conference on Recent Development in Plant Stress Biology: Translating Laboratory Research to Human Welfare titled ‘RDPSB-2018’ concluded today at Brig Rajinder Singh Auditorium, University of Jammu.
The conference was organized by Department of Botany, Central University of Jammu (CUJ). 85 delegates, including eminent academicians and scientists – Prof N Tuteja, Prof BC Tripathy and Prof Rajam participated in the conference and presented their work in the six technical sessions and the poster session.
Young delegates got an opportunity to hear stalwarts in this area of research. Dr Sanjay Kumar, Director CSIR- IHBT, Palampur and chief guest of the valedictory session delivered a talk on the adaptive strategies of high altitude plants.
Prof AK Koul, former Head, Department of Botany, JU was the guest of honour. He exhorted all participants to incorporate the takeaways from the deliberations in their research work and urged the scientific fraternity to research more actively on reproductive stress biology of plants.
Prof BS Bhau, Prof AK Wakhlu and Dr CM Seth were amongst the dignitaries present on the occasion. They jointly presented awards to winners of various categories.
Young Scientist award was given to Dr Sonal Mishra (JU) and Dr Meenakshi Raina (CUJ) for their research work. The first position in oral presentation category went to Dr Deepak Kumar, Department of Botany, CUJ, second to Arti Sharma (CSIR-IIIM Jammu) and the third was shared by Nitika Kapor (CSIR-IIIM Jammu) and Mohd Urfan (JU).
In Poster category, Dr Anjana Rustagi (Gargi College, New Delhi) stood first. Dr Samantha Vaishnavi and Dr Vikas Srivastava (CUJ) jointly shared second position. The third position was shared by Dr Sonal Mishra (JU) and Dr Mohd Asgher (BGSBU, Rajouri). Special appreciation award was given for their poster to 5th semester students, Akriti, Harisimerpreet and Raghubar of Botany Department, CUJ.
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