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Souvenir Celebrating 75 years National Seminar on Sustainable Crop Productivity through Physiological Interventions (November 24-26, 2011) Organized by Department of Life Science Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga, Mumbai & Indian Society for Plant Physiology, New Delhi National Seminar on Sustainable Crop Productivity through Physiological Interventions November 24-26, 2011, Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga, Mumbai ORGANIZATION Chief Patron Dr. S. Ayyappan Director General, ICAR & Secretary, DARE, Govt. of India Patron Advisors Dr. S.K. Datta Dr. R.K. Sairam Deputy Director General (Crop Sci.), ICAR IARI, New Delhi Dr. Rajan M. Welukar Dr. S.M. Karmakar Vice-chancellor University of Mumbai Plant Physiologist, Mumbai ISPP Member Dr. Tukaram A. More Vice-chancellor, MPKV, Rahuri Corporate Body Advisors Dr. K.P. Gore Vice-chancellor, MAU, Parbhani Shri Raju Barwale, MahycoShri Dr. S.S. Randade, Ranade Micro Nutrients Co-patrons Farmer Representative Prof. Dr. Suhas Pednekar, Principal, Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga Krishi Bhushan Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, Welingkar Shri C.H. Bhadsavle Institute of Management Matunga, Mumbai Organizing Secretary Joint Organizing Secretary Dr. Ganesh Iyer Dr. Seema Menon INDIAN SOCIETY FOR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL President : Dr. S.K. Datta Ex-President : Dr. P.S. Deshmukh Hon. Secretary & : Dr. R.K. Sairam Vice-President : Dr. V.P. Singh Executive Editor Dr. K.P. Singh Treasurer : Dr. Madan Pal Singh Zonal Secretaries Editor-in-Chief : Dr. Ajay Arora North Zone : Dr. Rajiv Angrish Joint Secretary : Dr. Ishwar Singh South Zone : Dr. C. Raja Sekaran East Zone : Dr. Ranjan Das West Zone : Dr. Manish Das Central Zone : Dr. B.L. Kakralya National Organizing Committee Local Organizing Committee Dr. S.K. Sopory, VC, JNU, New Delhi Prof. Dr. U.S. Bagde, Head, Dept. of Life Sciences, Dr. R.P. Dua, ADG, ICAR, New Delhi University of Mumbai Dr. M.B. Chetti, Dharwar Dr. R.M. Pai, Head, Department of Zoology, Ruia Dr. P.K. Agarwal, New Delhi College, Mumbai Dr. M. Udayakumar, Bangaluru Dr. Behnaz Patel, Head, Department of Botany, Ruia Dr. A.K. Dhawan, Hisar College, Mumbai Dr. S.K. Sawhney, New Delhi Dr. S.B. Pandey, Associate Prof. Department of Life Dr. G.C. Srivastava, New Delhi Science, Ruia College, Mumbai Dr. P.S. Deshmukh, New Delhi Dr. L. Neelima, Assistant Porf., Ruia College, Dr. B.B. Singh, Former, VC, ANDUA&T, Faizabad Mumbai Dr. Anil Grover, New Delhi Shri Bhupandar Madvi, Asstt. Prof., Ruia College, Dr. B.B. Jadhav, Dapoli, MS Mumbai Dr. R. Ezekiel, Shimla Dr. Kanchan Chitnis, Asstt. Prof., Ruia College, Dr. J.P. Srivastava, Varanasi Mumbai Dr. V.P. Singh, New Delhi Dr. B.L. Thaware, Rice Specialist, Regional Agril. Dr. Ajay Arora, New Delhi Station, Karjat, MS Dr. Madan Pal Singh, New Delhi Prof. Dr. M.M. Bourandar, Plant Physiologist, Dr. Ishwar Singh, New Delhi Dapoli, MS National Seminar on Sustainable Crop Productivity through Physiological Interventions November 24-26, 2011, Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga, Mumbai Celebrating 75 years CONTENT S.No. Title Page No. 1. Heat stress system biology of rice crop 1-8 Anil Grover 2. Physiology of waterlogging tolerance in plants 9-14 R.K. Sairam 3. Enhancement of post-harvest life in horticultural crops: modulation of ethylene-dependent 15-26 and -independent pathways Ajay Arora 4. Genetic Improvement in drought tolerance of crops: progress and challenges 27-35 Viswanathan Chinnusamy 5. Potato starch 36-49 R. Ezekiel 6. Physiology of flowering of horticultural crops with special reference to mango (Mangifera 50-58 indica L.) V.K. Singh and H. Ravishankar 7. Application of remote sensing information in crop watch and drought 59-66 R. Nagarajan 8. Abiotic stress: perception, signaling and gene expression 67-73 Kshitija Sawant and Sujata Bhargava 9. Enhancing chickpea productivity under abiotic stress conditions 74-78 T.P. Singh, P.S. Deshmukh and M. Dutta 10. Physiological basis of plant productivity 79-83 S.R. Voleti, D. Subrahmanyam, P. Raghuveer Rao and B. Sailaja 11. Crop simulation models in agricultural research and management 84-87 S. Naresh Kumar 12. Plant mineral nutrition especially nitrogen, phosphorus and their interaction under changing 88-91 climatic and soil condition Renu Pandey, Lekshmy S., Krishna Kant Dubey and Vanita Jain 13. Electromagnetic energies for seed enhancement in agricultural crops 92-95 Anjali Anand and Shantha Nagarajan National Seminar on Sustainable Crop Productivity through Physiological Interventions November 24-26, 2011, Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga, Mumbai Celebrating 75 years 14. Applications of nanotechnology to agriculture 96-99 R.P.R.C. Aiyar 15. Pollen- stigma interaction 100-102 Ganesh Iyer 16. Improving high temperature tolerance in crop plants: physiological approaches 103-105 Madan Pal Singh, R.N. Bahuguna and Sangeeta Khetarpal 17. Iron nutrition of rice plant in relation to climate change 106-108 P.K. Mohapatra 18. Physiological interventions to address challenges in plant mineral nutrition 109-111 Bhupinder Singh 19. Sustainable agriculture in relation to global climate change with respect to sorghum 112-114 H.S. Talwar, B. Dayakar Rao and J.V. Patil 20. Brassinosteroids-indispensable for plant growth and survival 115-117 S. Seeta Ram Rao 21. Genetic manipulation of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium, anabaena sp. to enhance its 118-120 biofertiliser potential Hema Rajaram 22. Enhancement of productivity under water limited conditions - a new paradigm called 121-122 physiological breeding are we ready for the challenge? M.S. Sheshshayee, M.P. Rajanna, M.V. Mohankumar, Rathnakar Shet, B.R. Raju, A.G. Sumanthkumar, B. Mohanraju and Mallikarjun 23. Unraveling drought tolerance mechanisms in crop plants using genomic approaches 123-124 K.N. Nataraja, V. Pruthvi, M.S. Parvathi and N. Rama National Seminar on Sustainable Crop Productivity through Physiological Interventions November 24-26, 2011, Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga, Mumbai Celebrating 75 years HEAT STRESS SYSTEM BIOLOGY OF RICE CROP Anil Grover Ph.D.; J.C. Bose Fellow (DST), FNA; FIASc; FNAAS; FNASc Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi 110021 Email: [email protected] Introduction underlying physiological processes, biochemical enzymes and molecular mechanisms that impart high Most detailed work on plant heat shock proteins temperature tolerance have not been precisely defined has been carried out using Arabidopsis, a model-plant. and understood. Since 1990, our group at Delhi University is aiming to establish the characteristics of heat shock proteins of To possibly enable plants to grow, reproduce the crop plants. Employing rice as model-crop, the and set seeds at high temperatures, altering the cellular questions we address are: (1) genetic diversity in heat response of plants to high temperature is an important shock proteins/heat shock factors, (2) expression biology objective. To achieve this objective, it is relevant that of heat shock proteins/heat shock factors, (3) the molecular components that underlie the high biochemical roles of heat shock proteins, (4) regulation temperature stress response in plants are understood. of heat shock proteins/heat shock factors expression Microarray-based transcript and two-dimensional (heat shock promoter analysis; heat shock element protein gel electrophoresis coupled with configurations; heat shock factor/heat shock factor microspectrometric technique-based proteome profiling interactions; heat shock factor/heat shock element data have shown that heat stress response largely binding; heat shock proteins/heat shock factors involves heat shock proteins and proteins involved in interactions) and (5) genetic transformation for higher metabolism of reactive oxygen species (ROS) heat tolerance scavengers, hormones and sugars. In recent times, it has been shown that plants for high temperature Basic tenets of heat stress system biology tolerance can be genetically-engineered by altering heat shock proteins (Hsps) either directly or through Daily fluctuations in high day and/or night regulatory circuits that govern Hsp levels, levels of temperatures adversely affect crops. While some osmolytes, components of the cell detoxification stages of plant growth may be more sensitive to high mechanisms and components that regulate membrane temperature than others, there is an overall reduction fluidity. in plant performance when temperature is higher than the optimal temperature at specific growth stages. High temperature stress is, in general, simulated in laboratory experiments by subjecting biological Conventional breeding for high temperature systems to heat shock (HS) treatment. Plants mount stress tolerance has not been much successful due to resistance to HS by eliciting specific metabolic several reasons like lack of suitable source(s) of genes adjustments. A great deal of detailed understanding has in sexually-compatible gene pools, complex nature of been gained on various components of the heat shock the high temperature stress trait, lack of understanding response (HSR) in living organisms including features on the genetic mechanisms of the high temperature like heat shock genes/proteins, heat shock promoters tolerance response etc. Advent of recombinant DNA and heat shock elements (HSEs), heat shock factors (rDNA) technology methods has opened avenues for (HSFs), possible receptors of the heat shock response, tackling issues relating to complex genetic traits. The signaling components and chromatin re-modeling need for