The Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) breeders developed high zinc rice variety, Brri dhan -62. HarvestPlus, supported this  biofortification project under the Washington-based global agro-science coordinating body Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The newly released outstanding variety which has got approval of  the National

In an article entitled, “Biotransformation of low cost lignocellulosic substrates into vanillin by white rot fungus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium,” published in the April issue Indian J. Biotech. 12: 281-283, Karode Bhusan, Patil Ulhas and Aparna Jobanputra have reported that they used lignocellulosic substrates such as rice husk, groundnut shell, etc. to transf

In an article entitled, ‘Design and characterization of synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia for direct production of isobutanol from cellulosic biomass’ published in August 19, 2013, issue of PNAS (doi:10.1073/pnas.1218447110), the lead author Jeremy J. Minty from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA with seven other associates f

GNOBB is always pleased to publish news of achievement of GNOBB members. With a good deal of pleasure that Mr. Aubhishek Zaman, one  of the youngest members of  this web-based organization, is now in UT  Southwestern Medical Center  at Dallas doing his Ph.D.  The Ph.D. Program requires a student to undergo rotation program in three departments. Aubhishek has

In an article entitled, “Glutamate receptor-like genes mediate leaf –to-leaf wound signaling,” published on the 22nd August, ‘13 issue of Nature, (500: 422–426), Seyed AR Mousavi and four of his associates affiliated to the Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universi

While paying a great tribute to Professor Maqsudul Alom, Prothom Alo (প্রথম আলো) has brought to light an interesting piece of news that the Kiwi Fruit Industry in New Zealand has approached the pioneer genome scientist to come to their rescue in containing a deadly disease called psa (Pseudomonas syringae pv actinidiae) that affect Kiwifruit, causing a

In an article entitled, “Caffeoyl Shikimate Esterase (CSE) Is an Enzyme in the Lignin Biosynthetic Pathway,” published online in the 15th August issue of Science Express, Ruben Vanholme and 17 associates affiliated to Belgium Research Institutes and some to James Hutton Institute, Dundee have described an enzyme (called caffeoyl shikimate esterase (CSE)) central to

In an article entitled, “Oil palm genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in Old and New worlds,” Rajinder Singh, Robert A. Martienssen, Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi and 25 associates affiliated to Malaysian Palm Oil Board and five other institutes of the USA including CSHL, published  in August 15, 2013 issue   of Nature 500: 335&nda

The GNOBB members already read the news about unraveling of genome of Deshi (Corchorus capsularis) either in its website or through various electronic media and newspapers. On the 19thAugust a news conference in which journalists, staff reporters of electronic media were invited,w as arranged in front of the newly constructed 4-storied Basic  And Applied Research Building. &nbs

It’s a red letter day for Bangladeshi jute scientists working at the newly established biotechnology lab situated in the BJRI premises. Based on the information provided by Prof. Maqsudul Alam, (the world renowned genome scientist at the Manoa Campus of the Hawaiian University) , Sheikh Hasina announced in the afternoon today (Sunday) at her official residence that Bangladeshi