Dear Sir/Madam
Greetings from ICRISAT!!
We are organizing the InterDrought-V conference in Hyderabad International Convention Center(HICC), Hyderabad, India during 21-25 February, 2017. We would like to circulate the information about this conference widely and request you to kindly publish the message below in the upcoming message digest.
Many thanks and kind regards
Rajeev
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InterDrought- V Conference in Hyderabad, India during 21-25 February, 2017
Drought is weather-related natural disaster, which affects vast regions for months or years and has impact on food production. Drought is related to a deficiency of precipitation over a season or an extended period of time. The most immediate consequence is a fall in crop production, due to inadequate and poorly distributed rainfall. Given the severity of drought, a central challenge for researchers and policy makers is to devise technologies that lend greater resilience to agricultural production under this stress.
InterDrought conferences, in view of above, serve as a platform for presenting and debating key issues and strategies relevant for improving drought and other stress tolerance in crops. The main mission of the conference is to explore the possibilities of scientific and technological applications in crop improvement.
In continuation of earlier InterDrought Conference held in France (ID-I, 1995), Italy (ID-II, 2005), China (ID-III, 2009) and Australia (ID-IV, 2013), the next InterDrought Conference, InterDrought-V (ID-V), is being organized in India at Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC), Hyderabad, India during 21-25 February, 2017. Please mark these dates in your calendar for participating in ID-V conferences. Preliminary information about ID-V is available at http://ceg.icrisat.org/idv/.
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Rajeev K. Varshney, PhD, FNA, FCSSA, FNAAS, FNASc
Research Program Director, Grain Legumes;
Director, Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEG) & Principal Scientist (Applied Genomics)
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
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Winthrop Research Professor, School of Plant Biology & Institute of Agriculture
The University of Western Australia
Mailing address:
Bldg # 300, Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEG)
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Patancheru - 502 324, Greater Hyderabad, INDIA
Tel: 0091 40 30713305; Fax: 0091 40 3071 3074/ 3075
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