Dhaka, 9th June, 2014. It’s with great pleasure I am posting the interview of Mr. Mustak bin Ayub with Ekushey  (একুশে) TV. In order to view it you need to use the following URL..   Lucid was his  presentation and the listeners found it easy to follow. The present difficulty is that physicians prescribe a variety of drugs for the treatme

DHAKA, THE 8TH MAY, 2014.THE WORLDWIDE DATA ON SOIL PH HAS ALREADY REACHED AN ALARMING LEVEL  AS IT INITIATES THE RELEASE OF ALUMINUM (AL3+) FROM SOIL MINERALS. THIS SITUATION IS WORSE IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OF ASIA, AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA RATHER THAN INOTHER PARTS OF THE GLOBE AS REVEALED IN THE DEMOGRAPHIC PICTURE. ALUMINUM HAMPERS PLANT GROWTH IN T

The entire community of GNOBB members will be exceedingly pleased to know that through the good offices of Prof. Dr Atta-ur Rahman, the UNESCO Science Laureate and HEJ Distinguished National Professor, a website LEJ4 Learning has been launched. This will provide a huge resource of knowledge, which comprises thousands of lecture courses (about 0.5 million lecture hours, ski

In an article, “Gene silencing of Sugar-dependent 1 (JcSDP1), encoding a patatin-domain triacylglycerol lipase, enhances seed oil accumulation in Jatropha curcas,” published in the current issue of Biotechnology for Biofuels (2014, 7:36), the principal author, Nam-Hai Chua and five of his associates  have reported the presence of three fatty acid chains (u

April 24, ’14.  Dr. Adam Price, Professor in Plant Molecular Biology, Dept. of Plant and Soils, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK visited Plant Biotech. Lab, headed by Professor Zeba I. Seraj, on 22nd of April, 2014. Professor Price is a very well known appearance in the field of Plant Molecular Biology. His expertise and interest lies on genetic v

In an article entitled, “Re-evaluation of the inheritance for root-knot nematode resistance in the Upland cotton germplasm line M-120 RNR,”  published in the  April, 2014 issue ofTheoretical and Applied Genetics revealed two epistatic QTLs conferring root-knot nematode resistance, the lead author, Yajun He and  his seven associates 

              রাত ৯টা ১৩ই এপ্রিল, ১৪২০। গোটা বাঙ্গালী জাতি কিছুক্ষণ পূর্বে ১৪২০ সালের শেষ সূর্যাস্তকে অনেক স্মৃতি বিজড়িত চিত্তে �

April 12, ’14. It’s with a good deal of pleasure that GNOBB announces the participation of its  popular and dynamic member, Professor (Dr.) Haseena Khan, Chairperson in  the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, DU at the first ever National Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology (NCNST-2014) at the Chittagong Campus of Asian Univer

The National Institute of Biotechnology (NIB) has prepared a database under the title, “National database on Biotechnology and Personnel.” Click here to access the database

In the April ’14 issue of Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Ki-Seung Kim and four associates  published a paper entitled, “Identification and molecular mapping of two soybean aphid resistance genes in soybean PI 587732.” In their introductory remarks they have described  Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] to be continually deva