Environment plays a decisive role in determining plant productivity. Since the industrial revolution, environment has been rapidly changed by anthropogenic activities like industrialization, fossil fuel burning, deforestation, and extensive use of agricultural chemicals, raising the level of atmospheric CO2 and other green house gases with a consequent rise in global temperature and a redistribution of rainfall. The level of UV-B radiation is also rising at an alarming rate. Non-availability of water is going to be a crucial limitation in the coming 50 years. All these factors are to intensify further with passage of time and have a bearing on plant biology and biodiversity. This situation has caused a serious concern all over the world and merits an immediate attention.

          This symposium forms a significant step in this direction and will provide a meaningful forum for the experts from all parts of the country for dissemination of knowledge and exchange of information on the impact of environmental factors on plant performance, its assessment and interpretation, and for formulating plans for action. You are cordially invited to participate.

          Jamia Hamdard, a Deemed University established in 1989 and Accredited in ‘A’ Category by the NAAC, is located in the Tughlaqabad area of South Delhi. The picturesque university campus, spread over an area of about 96 acres of land, touches the Badarpur-Mehrauli Road on one side and Guru Ramdas Road on the other. The campus, with Batra Hospital Complex on M.B. Road as a landmark next to it, is about 20 km from New Delhi Railway Station and 25 km from Delhi Station. Delhi is quite cold in December, with the average temperature normally varying from 10-20°C. Participants need to bring woolen clothing.

The broad themes of the sessions are:

• Biodiversity: Extent, significance and threats

• Global climatic change and plant production

• Plant structure, growth and development in relation to environment

• Biotic and abiotic stresses, impact on plants, adaptation and management

• Tolerance/Resistance mechanisms in plants: Physiological and molecular bases

• Phytoremediation

          The abstract, in about 250 words, as well as the manuscript of the full paper developed on the pattern of Phytomorphology should be sent in duplicate to Prof. M. Iqbal, Department of Botany, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi-110062 to reach him before deadlines mentioned below. The abstracts, accepted after scrutiny, will be published and distributed to the participants. Full presentations of the Symposium, selected after peer review, will be published in the form of a book of international standard.

Submission of Abstracts : October 15, 2003

Acceptance of Abstracts : November 15, 2003

Submission of Full Paper : December 31, 2003

No additional Registration Fee will be charged from the delegates already registered for the 26th Conference of the Indian Botanical Society to be held simultaneously. Others will have to pay a sum of Rs. 500 through Bank Draft drawn in favour of Registrar, Jamia Hamdard payable at New Delhi.This may be sent to Prof. M. Iqbal, Convenor of the Symposium, together with the Abstract. Charges for accommodation (approx. Rs. 400-500 per day) shall be borne by the participants. Further tariff details will be communicated together with the acceptance of the Abstract.

Chairman
Prof. M.A. Baig, Dean (Science)

National Advisory Committee
Dr. Abrol, I.P., New Delhi
Dr. Ahmad, K.J., Lucknow
Prof. Ambasht, R.S., Varanasi
Prof. Arif Ali, New Delhi
Prof. Dalbir Singh, Jaipur
Dr. Dwivedi, R.S., Lucknow
Prof. Farooq, S., Srinagar
Prof. Ghouse, A.K.M., Aligarh
Prof. Gupta, P.K., Meerut
Prof. Khan, M.I.H., Aligarh
Dr. Manju Sharma, New Delhi
Prof. Mohan Ram, H.Y., Delhi
Prof. Mohanty, P.K., Bhubaneswar
Dr. Pushpangadan, P., Lucknow
Prof. Ramakrishnan, P.S., New Delhi
Dr. Rao, R.R., Bangalore
Dr. Singh, R.P., Lucknow
Dr. Sopory, S.K., New Delhi
Prof. Srivastava, G.C., New Delhi
Prof. Tripathi, R.S., Shillong
Prof. Tyagi, A., New Delhi
Prof. Yunus, M., Lucknow

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