Biotechnological Advances for Disease Tolerance in Plants

1. Advances in genetic mapping of loci governing disease resistance in plants.- 2. Genome editing to improve nutrition status of crop plants.- 3. Genomic selection for quantitative disease resistance in plants.- 4. Imperative role of Rgenes and associated molecular mechanisms in plant disease resistance.- 5. Applications of high throughput sequencing chemistries in decoding pathogen genomes.- 6. Effectors mediated pathogenicity.- 7. Role of Non-coding RNAs in disease resistance in plants.- 8. Implication of phytohormonal signaling and their molecular cross-talk during disease resistance in plants.- 9. Integrated omics approaches for plant disease resistance.- 10. Biotechnological tools for disease diagnostic.- 11.Transgenic plants for bacterial and fungal disease tolerance.- 12. Genome-editing advances for disease resistance in plants.- 13. Tomato as a model plant to understand Plant-microbial interactions.- 14. Transcription factors and their regulatory role in Plant defence response. 15. Role of effectors in plant-pathogen interactions.- 16. Transcriptomics of host-pathogen interaction.

Prof. (Dr.) Kashmir Singh, is the professor of Biotechnology and Coordinator, DST- Centre for Policy Research (CPR), at Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh. He has over  18 years of teaching and research experience with active participation in administrative activities as well. He has vast international exposure and worked as Marie Curie Post Doc Fellow in Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, Research Associate, at Missouri State University, USA and visiting scientist at McGill University, Canada. He has authored more than 100 national and international publications and editor of reputed international journals. Three patents are credit to him and 01 successful technology transfer to the industry. He is having an active association with different scientific societies and academies around the world. Prof. Singh has made his mark in the scientific communities with his contributions and received wide recognition from various agencies around the world. Prof. Kashmir Singh's major research interest involves Plant Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Intellectual Properties (IP) and Technology Transfer and Public Private Partnerships.

 

Dr. Ravneet Kaur is currently working as a Women Scientist at the Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, India. She carried out her PhD studies in India (Guru Nanak Dev University), where she got specialized in Plant tissue culture and biotechnology. She is the recipient of international fellowships such as  Marie Curie post doc Fellowship at Adam Mickiewicz university, Poland, Post-doctoral fellow, McGill University, Canada and post-doctoral fellow, Missouri State University, US. She has more than 25 publications in various national and international journals. Her research is  focused on using functional genomics tools to understand secondary metabolism and stress tolerance in crops.

 

Dr. Rupesh Deshmukh currently working as