Agricultural Sciences
Dissecting resistance to plant parasitic nematodes in wheat using molecular breeding and functional genomics
Discovery of novel cell-autonomous host pathways and counteracting immune evasion strategies employed by vacuolar pathogens - an approach to identify new antimicrobial hostfactors and novel microbial targets
Exploration of Plant Growth Promoting Microbes (PGPM) for crop enhancement and disease suppression in tea plantation of Assam and their molecular characterization
Development of sustainable production technology for camptothecin from newly identified plant and fungal sources
Development of Herbal Formulations from Seabuckthorn
Development of Fungal Biopesticides from endophytes isolated from medicinal plants
Strengthening of Seed Systems in the North Eastern and Unreached Regions - Problems, Prospects & policies
The seminar focusses on research & skill development needs in seed science, technology and policies.