In the January, 2014 issue of the Indian Journal of biotechnology, Somayaji, Prarthana Doddananjappa, Theertha Prasad Byrappa and Shivanna Manchanahally transformed tomato genotype, Arka Vikas. Transformation resulted in the enhancement of its lycopene content. Using 488 bp ySAMdc gene under E8 fruit promoter through Agrobacterium tumefaciens, transformation, whi

Over the past decade, the sequencing of human genome initiated a new era revolutionizing the biomedical research. But a map of human proteome with direct measurements of proteins and peptides does not exist yet. Interestingly, two individual groups of scientists  have recently published the draft map of the  human Proteome in  the May, 2014 issue of the

Dhaka 5th June, 2014, In an article entitled, “Production of marker-free transgenicJatropha curcas expressing hybrid Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxin Cry1Ab/1Ac for resistance to larvae of tortrix moth (Archips micaceanus)”,  published in  3rd May, ’14 issue of Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014, 7:68,  Keyu Gu, Hui

4th June, 2014. The three celebrated Institutes, namely, Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facilities for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2) BGI, Bei Shan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China  and the International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila 1301, Philippines, re-sequenced a core collec

The three celebrated Institutes, namely, Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facilities for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2) BGI, Bei Shan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China  and 3) the International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila 1301, Philippines, in a combined effort re-seque

National Earth Olympiad 2014 or NEO’14: The first ever Earth and Environmental Science Olympiad in Bangladesh, now in its third year, had its final round on Friday, May 30, 2014 at Independent University Bangladesh. 150 participants who qualified out of 3000 students from the 11 divisional rounds from all over the country, on completion of the respective divisional Green Day T

30th May, 2914. GNOBB feel a good deal of pleasure to announce that Dr. Mohammed Uddin, a Bangladeshi scientist and a GNOBB member is the lead author of the paper  titled “Brain-expressed exons under purifying selection are enriched for de novo mutations in autism spectrum disorder”, published online in the May 25, 2014 issue of the prestigi

Dhaka 26th May, 2014.  A graduate student of Professor Dr Tofazzal   at the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Department of Biotechnology Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University & Department of Biotechnology Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University Gazipur-1706 has prepared the attached qu

GNOBB members will be pleased to know that the Annual Botanical Conference & AGM 2013 will be held on the 31 May, 2014 in the Assembly Hall of  Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha(Bengali: ঠেঙ্গামারা মহিলা সবুজ সংঘ) (TMSS), Bogra founded byProf. Dr. Hosne-Ara Begum – an eminent botanist and a well-known social worker of

May 25, 2014. In an article titled, “Genome sequence of the cultivated cotton Gossypium arboretum,” published online 18 May 2014 in the current (May) issue of Nature Genetics, the three lead authors, Yu-Xian Zhu, Jun Wang, Shuxun Yu along with 28 associates reported the genomic sequence of the cultivated Asiatic cotton, G. arboretum. The authors sequenced and a