Marker-assisted breeding laboratory, training inaugurated at BRRI
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Speakers, at a workshop on marker-assisted breeding, highlighted the importance of human resource development for the use of advanced technology like marker-assisted selection breeding for the development of rice varieties especially suitable for adverse conditions like salinity, flash flood, cold and drought in the context of climate change.
The ten-day hand on training workshop was inaugurated at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) in Gazipur recently, says a press release.
BRRI Director General Md Nur-E-Elahi and IRRI Senior Scientist Abdelbagi Ismail attended the function as the chief and special guest respectively.
BRRI Director (Research) M A Salam presided over the meeting sponsored by Generation Challenge Programme in collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
IRRI Liaison Scientist M A Hamid Miah and Dhaka University Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Zeba Islam Seraj spoke on the occasion.
Among others, BRRI Director (Admin) A W Julfiquar, BRRI Research Coordinator Musherraf Hosain, IRRI Molecular Scientist Michael Thomson, heads of BRRI research divisions and senior officials attended the function.
Sixteen scientists and research fellows from BRRI, Dhaka University and Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) are participating in the training course.
The chief guest along with the special guest inaugurated the newly established Marker-Assisted Selection Laboratory and Molecular Laboratory at the Plant Breeding Division of BRRI.
The ten-day hand on training workshop was inaugurated at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) in Gazipur recently, says a press release.
BRRI Director General Md Nur-E-Elahi and IRRI Senior Scientist Abdelbagi Ismail attended the function as the chief and special guest respectively.
BRRI Director (Research) M A Salam presided over the meeting sponsored by Generation Challenge Programme in collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
IRRI Liaison Scientist M A Hamid Miah and Dhaka University Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Zeba Islam Seraj spoke on the occasion.
Among others, BRRI Director (Admin) A W Julfiquar, BRRI Research Coordinator Musherraf Hosain, IRRI Molecular Scientist Michael Thomson, heads of BRRI research divisions and senior officials attended the function.
Sixteen scientists and research fellows from BRRI, Dhaka University and Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) are participating in the training course.
The chief guest along with the special guest inaugurated the newly established Marker-Assisted Selection Laboratory and Molecular Laboratory at the Plant Breeding Division of BRRI.