Three day Int Plant Science seminar inaugurated

World famous scientist and Secretary General of International Association of Plant Taxanomy (IAPT), Dr Karol Marthod of Slovakia today inaugurated a three-day International Plant Science seminar at the Calicut University campus, near here.
In his inaugural address, Marthod exhorted plant scientists the world over to bring about a green revolution.
More than a hundred scientists and researchers from abroad and 700 from different states in the country, including Kerala, are participating in the seminar.
The seminar is being conducted as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Indian Association of Angiosperm Taxanomy (IAAT), organisers of the event, a release from the university said today.

Subjects like systematics of flowering plants and phylogeny, modern trends and techniques in plant taxanomy, bio-diversity assessment and conservation, ethno-botany, plant response to climate changes and medicinal plant and bio-prospecting will be deliberated at the seminar, it said.
Awards to six young scientists will also be presented on the occasion.
Representatives from the United States, Slovakia, Brazil, Spain, China, Australia, England, Argentina and Ethiopia are the members, the release said.