ISLAMABAD (March 20 2004): The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (Parc) is organising a five-day international second regional yellow rust conference here from March 22.

The Parc Chairman, Dr Badaruddin Soomro, will inaugurate the conference, which would consider the success of and report on progress since the first regional yellow rust conference, held in Karaj, Iran in 2001.

The conference would be spread over various technical sessions, which include presentations, by invited speakers organised as symposia, on the general themes of "disease epidemiology", "resistance breeding and genetics", "disease management" and "application of biotechnology" as well as posters, field tours and specialised evening sessions.

The conference would provide the opportunity for researchers to exchange ideas, share views and information on new approaches and discuss practical means of managing cereal rust diseases.

It would also provide, researchers and students from Central Asia and North Africa countries, a forum to present the problems and constraints of handing cereal rust diseases and the opportunity for establishing linkages among researchers from Central Asia and North Africa, developed countries and international canters.

The conference would be attended by the scientists and experts from Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nepal, Australia, Central Asian and North African countries.

Courtesy Business Recorder