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A detailed account of the TC and Biotech activities carried out in both public, private universities and research institutions

A detailed account of the TC and Biotech activities carried out in both public,  private universities and research institutions

Dhaka 8th March, 2014. The souvenir  of  the seventh international TC and Biotech Conference has given a detailed account of the TC and Biotech activities carried out in both public and private universities as well as in various research Institutions in the country. Please click the attached document to view this account. The Coordinator will be happy to correct

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Gemini virus Vectors Deliver Reagents for Plant Genome Engineering

Gemini virus Vectors Deliver Reagents for Plant Genome Engineering

Dhaka March 6, ’14. In an article entitled, “Gemini virus Vectors Deliver Reagents for Plant Genome Engineering,” published online  followed by its publication in the January, ‘14 issue  of the Plant Cell (vol.26, 1-2), the authors report of many novel tools  for carrying out genome engineering work. It  

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A report on the just concluded Seventh International Plant Tissue Culture Conference.

A report on the just concluded Seventh International Plant Tissue Culture Conference.

GNOBB owes a good deal to Professor Dr. Rakha Hari Sarker, Dhaka University, the driving force behind the International Meet for preparing a comprehensive report on the just concluded Seventh International Plant Tissue Culture Conference. The detailed  report is given below: Any inquiry may be directed to him at rhsarker2000@yahoo.co.uk. The coordi

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UoI Research Team Converts Sugarcane to Cold Tolerant, Oil-Producing Crop with more sugar content

UoI Research Team Converts Sugarcane to Cold Tolerant, Oil-Producing Crop with more sugar content

Dhaka, March 3, ’14. According  to a news itempublished in the February issue of Crop Biotech,  the researchers affiliated to a multi-institutional team from the University of Illinois claim to have evolved sugarcane varieties that can grow outside its geographic range showing enhanced photosynthetic rate by 30 percent turning into  an oil-pr

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Seventh Triennial International Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Conference

Seventh Triennial International Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Conference

Dhaka 2nd March, ’14. As already announced, the Seventh Triennial International Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Conference was held 1-3 March, 2014. The theme of the conference is: Biotechnology and Biosafety for Human Welfare. The inauguration of the conference will take place  in the NababNowab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhavan, Dhaka Unive

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Stem cells make muscles stronger in laboratory mice

Stem cells make muscles stronger in laboratory mice

In an article entitled, “Stem cells make muscles stronger, published online in the 20th February issue of Nature (506: 268-269), the author Bradley Olwin and his associates at the University of Colorado, Boulder, demonstrated that the protein called p38 prevents stem cells in old muscles from renewing. When the authors took muscle stem cells from

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Heartiest Congratulations to Ahmad Kabir et al. on his recent joint publication in the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Heartiest Congratulations to Ahmad Kabir et al. on his recent joint publication in the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Dhaka 21st Feb., ’14. We  are delighted to inform the members and well-wishers of GNOBB  that Ahmad Kabirat Rajshahi University  along with his two colleagues published online  a review paper titled, Zinc-deficiency resistance and biofortification in plants,” in the J. Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. The senior author has himself s

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Resequencing Data Indicate a Modest Effect of Domestication on Diversity in Barley

Resequencing Data Indicate a Modest Effect of Domestication on Diversity in Barley

Dhaka, 12 Feb., ’14. In an article titled, “Re-sequencing Data Indicate a Modest Effect of Domestication on Diversity in Barley: A Cultigen With Multiple Origins,” published in the current issue of Journal of Heredity (vol.105: 253-264), the lead author Peter I. Morrell and three of his associates at the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics

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Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

In an article titled, “Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition,” published inNature  (506: 8-55) on its online edition of 22nd January, ’14 the lead author Robert Bagchi and his seven associates affiliated with well-known European and UK laboratories reported that the processes that maintain the dive

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Antidiabetic activity of a triterpenoid saponin isolated from the roots of Momordica cymbalaria Fenzl

Antidiabetic activity of a triterpenoid saponin isolated from the roots of Momordica cymbalaria Fenzl

Dhaka, 10th Feb.,’14. In an article titled, “Antidiabetic activity of a triterpenoid saponin isolated from Momordica cymbalaria Fenzl”  of the family Cucurbitaceae, published in the February, ‘14 issue of the Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, (Vol. 52, , pp. 46-52), Raju B. Konen and two of his associates report that they h

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