Indian Society For Plant Physiology

Increase in the world population, loss of arable land, decline in availability of water for agriculture and global climate changes are the major threats to global food productivity and security. To address these global challenges, advance and modern technologies in agriculture need to be adopted. For example, crop improvement strategies that confer tolerance to environmental stresses as well as higher yield and biomass are the need of our time. To achieve this goal, candidate genes controlling the useful ergonomically important traits need to be identified using forward and reverse genetic approaches and employed to develop improved germplasm in crops of high relevance. Hence, this special Issue of Indian Journal of Plant Physiology will focus on the tools and the success stories related to the use of forward and reverse genetics for crop improvement, with a particular focus on the following aspects:

• Targeted gene disruption by homologous recombination
• Insertional mutagenesis/transposon mediated mutagenesis
• RNAi (RNA interference) or PTGS (post transcriptional gene silencing)
• Mutations including mutants with radiation, chemicals, or insertional mutagenesis
• Phenotypic evaluation and selection of novel plant phenotype
• Site-directed mutagenesis
• Gene targeting (gene knockout
• TILLING and EcoTILLING
• Targeted Genome Editing using CRISPR/Cas9, TALENs, ZNFs
• Computational biology to identify the molecular basis of mutations

We welcome reviews and original research papers on any of these topics. The submission deadline is June 30th, 2018

Guest Editors:

Professor Ashwani Pareek

Professor of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Adjunct Professor at University of Western Australia
Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory
School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067, INDIA

ashwanip@mail.jnu.ac.in

Dr Ajay Arora

Principal Scientist,
Division of Plant Physiology,
Indian Agricultural Research Institute,
New Delhi 110012, INDIA

ajayarora@iari.res.in

Professor Om Parkash Dhankker

Professor of Crop Biotechnology
Stockbridge School of Agriculture
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003, USA

parkash@umass.edu

National Conference of Plant Physiology-2017 (NCPP-2017) will be organized during November 23-25, 2017 at Department of Plant Physiology, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

National Conference of Plant Physiology-2017 (NCPP-2017), will be organized to address the challenging issues concerning agricultural productivity. World agriculture is confronting with climate change, increasing population, declining per capita arable land and scarcity of natural resources. To meet the demands of bulging population, agriculture production must be amplified from the shrinking natural resources despite unfavorable climatic conditions. In view of national commitment of ensuring food security, there is a need to develop strategies to boost the crop productivity. Harnessing potential of basic physiological processes and engineering the biochemical mechanisms involved in the synthesis of primary agricultural produce, it is essential to improve productivity. Besides, there is need to improve the nutritive value of the agricultural produce. Thus, physiological interventions present themselves as indispensable options to ensure food security as well as quality of the produce. Therefore, we need to develop genotypes and production technologies capable of enhancing both crop productivity and quality under current scenario. There is also a need to prevent enormous post-harvest losses in food grains, fruits and vegetables through developing new technologies. Using molecular techniques, we may develop crop varieties with improved productivity, quality and abiotic and biotic stress tolerance.

Keeping in view, Indian Society for Plant Physiology (ISPP), will organise NCPP-2017 from 23-25 November, 2017, at Department of Plant Physiology, IGKV, Raipur. The conference will bring together the leading scientists and researchers from India to discuss the major issues and current developments in Plant Physiology research.

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