Rubber: Training programme under Indo-French collaboration
For promotion of advanced research collaborative project
Agency
KOTTAYAM, March 21, 2024: M Vasanthagesan, Executive Director of the Rubber Board, inaugurated the three-day student training programme titled ‘Using omics approaches to decipher plant metabolism and evolutionary history’ in a meeting held at the Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII). The programme is conducted as a component of a collaborative research project by the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CIRAD) and RRII.
Dr Jessy M.D. (Director-Research in charge), Dr Bindu Roy C (Principal Scientist, RRII), Dr Valerie Pujade Renaud (CIRAD), Dr Bénédicte Favreau (CIRAD), Dr Jean-François Dufayard (CIRAD) and Dr Shaji Philip (Principal Scientist, RRII) spoke at the inaugural meeting. Indo-French Centre is the funding agency for the training programme in connection with the Promotion of Advanced Research under the collaborative project.
The participants include students studying or completed Masters or PhD in Botany, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Agriculture and other branches of Biology. The programme will close on March 2024.
The Indo-French collaborative project has been sanctioned for advanced research in Corynespora leaf fall disease of rubber in collaboration with the Rubber Board. The research project, ‘Dissecting the complex plant-pathogen interaction network through a multi-omics integrative approach to understand the Corynespora Leaf fall disease development in rubber and identify candidate genes for molecular breeding,’ is for three years.
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