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| VC SKUAST-J Inaugurates High-End Research Facilities | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 11: Prof. B.N. Tripathi, Vice-Chancellor, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu inaugurated high-end research facility developed under VC Flexi grant scheme of Holistic Agriculture Development Plan (HADP) project of Govt. of J&K UT. The facility includes high throughput transfection Particle Delivery System and a next generation sequencing unit. Prof. Tripathi expressed satisfaction on the establishment of such a facility which will give a boost to the genomic research for accelerated and precision crop improvement. The VC advised the scientists to utilize these high-end equipments to their fullest potential, and strive for breakthroughs that could contribute significantly to the field of biotechnology and beyond.
Later, Prof. B.N. Triptahi interacted with a group of technicians of Department of Horticulture, JK UT Govt., who were imparted two months training on ‘Tissue Culture Practices and Protocols for Scaled up Production of Quality Planting Material in Economically Important Fruit Plants’ at Institute of Biotechnology, SKUAST-Jammu with financial support under HADP.
Present on the occasion were Sh. C.L. Sharma, Director Horticulture; Prof. S.K. Gupta, Director Research; Prof. Amrish Vaid, Director Extension; Prof. R.K. Salgotra, Director Institute of Biotechnology, Dr. Hema Tripathi, Associate Director Extension and faculty members of the Institute.
Prof. B.N. Tripathi emphasized on the importance of conducting such trainings for technical staff of line departments to make them more skillful for generating quality planting material of economically important crops. He ensured continuous technical backup of the biotechnology scientists to the Department of Horticulture in establishing and operationalizing the Tissue Culture Laboratories being established at Mega Fruit Nursery, Chakroi. Prof. Tripathi laid stress on developing cost effective commercial tissue culture protocols for fruit plants such as strawberry, citrus fruits and banana.
Sh. C.L. Sharma expressed gratitude to the University for training manpower of the Department in tissue culture which will boost production of planting material for meeting demand of the farming community. He promised the financial support to the University through projects for need based research endeavors. The Director Horticulture felt need of surveying the fruit growing pockets of the Jammu region for estimating the production potential of major fruit crops.
Dr. S.K. Gupta appreciated the efforts of the concerned scientists and cooperation provided by the Department of Horticulture for conducting the training programme. Dr. Hema Tripathi took feed back from the trainees and suggested that a certificate course in Tissue Culture may be instituted and offered on regular basis.
Earlier, Prof. R.K. Salgotra welcomed the dignitaries and presented an outline of newly created research facilities, along with brief report of activities of the training programme. Prof. Salgotra conveyed his gratitude to the Vice-Chancellor for providing funds for establishing high-end research facilities under VC Flexi grant.
The activities of the programme were coordinated by Prof. Manmohan Sharma, Course Coordinator and vote of thanks was presented by Dr. Susheel Sharma. |
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