Organized by
Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Bangalore University
National Conference on Phytochemicals and Microbial Bioactive Compounds (PMBC-2019)
Thu, 03 Oct
|Gandhi Marg
The need of the hour is, for the scientific community to come together and collaborate to alleviate the problem and to provide food security and thereby contributing for human welfare.
Time & Location
03 Oct 2019, 10:00 am – 04 Oct 2019, 6:30 pm
Gandhi Marg, Gandhi Marg, Mariyappana Palya, Jnana Bharathi, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560056, India
About the event
About the conference
Nearly one billion people go hungry every day. Meanwhile, a significant amount of food currently grown worldwide is lost due to insects and other pests attacking the plants in addition to microbes. Reducing this loss by just 1% could feed millions. Past few decades have seen a surge in new technologies in the agricultural field. However, no technology is a permanent solution as the organisms keep evolving making it hard for scientists to keep pace with their evolution. The need of the hour is, for the scientific community to come together and collaborate to alleviate the problem and to provide food security and thereby contributing for human welfare.
Plants which served as sources for pest and disease control of crops traditionally are being revisited, by scientists, along with microorganisms to tackle the pests. While some of the phytochemicals and microbial bioactive compounds have successful stories to…