In an article entitled, “Widespread adoption of Bt cotton and insecticide decrease promotes biocontrol services” published in 19th July issue of Nature, vol. 487, pp. 362-365, Yanhui Lu and 4 others.Over the past 20 years, vast plantings of transgenic crops producing insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have helped control severa

In the April issue of the Indian J. Biotech 134-141 an, article under the caption, Isolation of lectin gene and development of resistant Nicotiana tabacum L. against Spodoptera litura was published. In that article Singh, Rashmi and six other associates have been  reported to have isolated a plant insecticidal protein known to be offering

In a PNAS article entitled, “Conserved genetic determinant of motor organ identity in Medicago truncatula and related legume,’ published online on the 16th July, Jianghua and six of his associates affiliated to 4 different institutes have suggested that by swelling and shrinking, the cells at opposite sides of the pulvinus are involved in directi

A seminar on, “Small Compounds Regulate Scaffold Protein RACK1A Mediated Cellular Stress Signaling Pathways in Arabidopsis and rice” will be delivered by Dr. Hemayet Ullah, Associate Professor, Biology, Dept. at Howad University on Monday, the 6th of August at 11 a.m. in KAL gallery, at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, DU. All interested l

Opportunity for Ph.D. Studentship in Zurich in evolutionary biology

It’s time that we review our past activities and promise ourselves not to repeat our lapses. When the website was launched five years back there was a lot of enthusiasm among members. It culminated a couple of years back in the holding of a grand function in which GNOBB members took part in large numbers both from home and abroad. Now that passion is gradually wearing out. Is

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is pleased to announce the 2012 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program (Borlaug Fellowship Program) for Bangladesh. The Borlaug Fellowship Program promotes food security and economic growth by increasing scientific knowledge, advancing the transfer of new agricultural technology, and encouragin

Dr. H. Gobind Khorana, the Nobel Laureate died of natural causes in Concord, Massachusetts last month on November 9 at the age of 89. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. For the first time he and his team succeeded in synthesizing a synthetic gene consisting of 77 nitrogenous bases. It was double stranded heli

After having completed a training fellowship for six months from June to November ‘2011 Ms. Sabrina Elias, Research Associate, Plant Biotechnology laboratory, DU, has returned from Australian National University. During her stay there, she worked on elucidation of structure of Rubisco in different wild rice specie under the guidance of Prof. Jill Gready at computational Proteo

GNOBB always feel happy to know that its member has published papers containing their research results or contributed a book chapter in a recent book or delivered a lecture in a plenary session as a invited speaker or joined a new or promoted to a higher post. Recently a well-known GNOBB member, Dr. Kamal Chowdhury Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, Claflin University