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| 2-day north zone meet on ISMPP in JU from today | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 28: The Department of Botany, University of Jammu, is organising two days “North Zone Meet” of the Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology (ISMPP) and a national symposium on “Microbial Diversity and Bio-prospecting” from tomorrow.
Dr. Yash Pal Sharma, organizing secretary disclosed that this north zone meet of the ISMPP is being held for the second time in the Biodiversity rich State of Jammu and Kashmir, in which about 200 delegates including eminent teachers, scientists and researchers from different institutions of India and J&K state shall participate.
“The theme of the National Symposium ‘Microbial Diversity and Bio-prospecting’ is appropriately chosen since the Year 2010 is being observed as the international year of biodiversity and microbes constitute one of the important components of Biodiversity,” he said.
He further said, “they have received little attention in our day to day life and have been largely ignored by most professional biologists and are virtually unknown to the public except in the contexts of disease and deterioration. Yet, the workings of the biosphere depend absolutely on the activities of the microbial world.”
Sharma said microbes occupy all living and nonliving niches on earth including arctic, Antarctic, and alpine regions, deserts, deep rock sediments, marine environments, and even thermal vents.
“The synergistic approach adopted by the research scientists from various fields of Sciences including Microbiology, Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences and science of Mycology and Plant pathology has yield overwhelming results in the areas of food grain production, food products industry, fermentation technology and pharmaceutical industry,” he maintained.
In this symposium eminent Professors, reputed agricultural scientists and plant pathologists shall be deliberating upon the frontier areas of research in the field of Microbial Diversity, agriculture and Mycology and Plant pathology.
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